Attendance
Policies on School Attendance
CSF0136 Hertfordshire Local Authority Policy on School Attendance
This Attendance Policy is intended to guide, assist and empower schools to meet their responsibilities and to provide an agreed framework within which consistent practices and procedures can be applied.
CSF0200 Producing a School Attendance Policy - Guidance for Schools
CSF0199 Family Holidays (During Term Time) and Extended Trips Overseas
Children Missing from Education
Help us to help safeguard children by using the form on the Herts Direct link below and tell us in confidence if you think you know of any children who are missing from education.
The Children Missing Education (CME) Officer will then check on all school aged children (aged 5 - 16) where it appears they don't have a school place and are not being taught outside of the school system.
School's Admission Roll
Guidance to schools on procedures for pupils who join and leave a school’s admission roll including pupils who go missing.
CSF4533
Integrated Services for Learning - Behaviour and Attendance
 Support for children and young people with significant emotional and behavioural difficulties and also those having difficulty with school attendance is availabe through your Area Behaviour and Attendance Team:
Strategies to Improve Attendance and Punctuality
These resource packs have been produced to provide schools with ideas and resources. They can be tailored to the needs of individual schools.
Primary
Secondary
Holidays in Term Time 
At a request from headteachers the local authority has provided a standard letter to be handed to parents and carers to support the governing body and headteachers in their attempts to dissuade them from taking children out of school during term time.
Please click on the link below to view and print the letter:
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