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Behaviour and attendance: your responsibilities

This section gives you information on your responsibilities in terms of behaviour and school attendance issues and the legislation involved to ensure you are fully aware of your legal responsibilities and the support available to you.

The Behaviour and attendance section includes:

Bigarrow School attendance: your responsibilities
A guide to the laws, the role of LAs, ways in which parents can help and term-time holidays.

Bigarrow Parenting contracts
Information about the formal agreements made between schools, LAs and parents to ensure good behaviour and attendance.

Bigarrow Parenting orders
Advice about the court order which can be used to make parents undertake parenting classes.

Bigarrow Penalty notices
Information about fines which can be issued to parents for their children's truancy, plus details of how to appeal.

BigarrowEvery Lesson Counts
Information on the campaign designed to improve children's attendance at school.