Consultation outcome

School registers and national thresholds for legal intervention

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 17 June 2022
• Last updated: 29 August 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Modernising school attendance and admission registers and setting national thresholds for legal intervention

PDF, 389 KB, 52 pages

Detail of outcome

This report is a summary of responses received as well as the government’s response to the consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on new regulations for keeping school registers and draft thresholds for legal interventions to improve consistency across England.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
3pm on 17 June 2022 to 11:30pm on 29 July 2022

Consultation description

Accurate recording and sharing of attendance data is crucial and the recent white paper committed to modernising the regulatory system for recording and sharing data. This consultation seeks views on the proposed new rules.

Following public consultation in February 2022, the Secretary of State committed to introduce a new national framework for the use of legal interventions for absence and excluded pupils in public places during the first 5 days of exclusion. In the government response we committed to consult on what thresholds should be included in the new framework. This consultation seeks views on proposed areas for inclusion.

Published 17 June 2022
Last updated 29 August 2023 + show all updates

1. 29 August 2023

   Added the government consultation response: 'Modernising school attendance and admission registers and setting national thresholds for legal intervention'.

2. 17 June 2022

   First published.