Who needs to be informed about the comprehensive attendance policy of the LEA?
Schools should make every effort to ensure that students understand the attendance policy and their rights and responsibilities within it. The governing board of the LEA must also: • provide a plain language summary of the policy to the parents of all pupils in its schools at the beginning of each school year; • NOTE: Plain language means that whatever is written or spoken is at a level that all parents should be able to read or hear and understand. Plain language text should also be translated into other languages for parents whose primary language is not English. ] • provide all teachers with a copy of the complete policy including any amendments; and • make copies available to community members upon request. • What did old instruction for attendance register keeping prior to 2001 entail? This document is the last edited version of the instructions for keeping student attendance records prior to the changes in Commissioners Regulation’s 104.1, in 2001. They were taken from “Legal Inf
