1. How many fines for school absences were issued by your council to parents in the school year 2023-24?
3202.
2. How many have been issued so far in the school year 2024-25?
457.
3. How many in school year 2022-23?
3043.
4. How many in school year 2021-22?How many in school year 2020-21?
2020-2021 = 89
2021-2022 = 991
5. 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.
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We would have to check each record for all the years mentioned above, which in total is 7,782 records, to see if this is a repeat fine and even at a minute a record, this would be 129 hours and over the 18 hours of officer time.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.
6. 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?
23/24 – £183,360 (Sep23 – Aug 24)
24/25 – £43,060 (Sep24 – Dec24)
7. How much of this money raised has been returned to the government?
None.