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30th December 2024
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Fines for school absences
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1. How many fines for school absences were issued by your council to parents in the school year 2034-24?
1,440.
2. How many have been issued so far in the school year 2024-25?
517 (as of 22 January 2025).
3. How many in school year 2022-23?
1,242.
4. How many in school year 2021-22?
645.
5. How many in school year 2020-21?
63.
6. If you are able to break this down, can you please say how many of the fines listed above were repeated fines? Please give the figure for each school year. E.g. 23-24 total fines 100, of which repeated fines 20. A repeated fine is when a parents receives a second fine for the same child within any three-year period, this is charged at the higher rate of £160.
The guidance stipulating that repeated fines have a 3-year timeframe only came in, in August 2024 (with the £160 rate). Some of the following repeated fines may have been outside the three-year period:
2020-21: data unavailable
2021-22: 88
2022-23: 179
2023-24: 280
2024-25 (as of 22 January 2025): 0 (as processes reset for this year in accordance with new guidance)
7. How much money was raised by these fines in the school year 2023-24? And how much money has been raised so far in the school year 2024-25?
2023-24: £82,680
2024-25 (as of 22 January 2025): £29,680
8. How much of this money raised has been returned to the government?
Nil.
