{"id":66622,"date":"2015-03-06T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/educationandchildren\/?page_id=710"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:26:47","slug":"school-attendance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/attendance-and-inclusion\/school-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalty notices and legal proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absence from school: Pay a school absence penalty notice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your child has unauthorised absences from school, this could result in a school absence penalty notice being issued. Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/attendance-and-inclusion\/school-attendance\/absence-from-school-penalty-notices\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"770\">school absence penalty notices<\/a> &#8211; as well as the other legal measures that can be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have received a school absence penalty notice you can pay it&nbsp;in the following ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/make-a-payment\/school-absence-penalty-notice\/\">Pay a school absence penalty notice<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phone on <a href=\"tel:03004560534\">0300 4560534<\/a> \u2013 calls charged at local rate. Further details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.call-charges.co.uk\/0300-call-charges#one\" rel=\"noopener\">www.call-charges.co.uk\/0300-call-charges#one<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postal order \u2013 must be the correct amount and be received by the specified payment date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cash in person by pre-arranged appointment by calling <a href=\"tel:01392383189\">01392 383189<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main reception<br>County Hall<br>Topsham Road<br>Exeter<br>EX2 4QD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late or part payments cannot be accepted and no reminders will be sent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance improvement team, including information about school attendance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":613,"parent":65034,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-66622","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 01:32:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75823,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66622\/revisions\/75823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}