I am requesting a breakdown of all school attendance fines issued for the complete academic year 2024/2025.
1. A total figure of the amount of fines issued for the full academic year across the region.
As of 01/09/2025 we have issued 3337 penalty notices
2. The total amount of funds these fines have generated for academic year 2024/2025.
As of 01/09/2025 £193,560 has been received for the issued penalty notices.
3. The increase/decrease of fines issued compared to the last full academic year (2023/2024).
As of 01/09/2025, this is an increase of 255 penalty notices
4. A breakdown of how many were issued to parents of children on the SEND register.
We do not hold this information on a central database and would therefore require an individual review of each individual notice. We would estimate that this would take nearly 280 hours (3337 notices x 5 minutes). This is in excess of the appropriate time limit of 18 hours and this information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
5. How many prosecutions were brought against parents for 2024/2025 for school attendance.
208
6. How many of those prosecutions were for children on the SEND register.
Please see our response to question 4 above.
7. The total amount of funds generated from prosecutions in the full academic year (2024/2025).
In the cases that have been heard/resulted £4305 has been awarded to the LA by the Courts.