Penalty notices will be issued to the parent/s with day-to-day responsibility for the pupil or the parent/s who have permitted the absence (regardless of which parent has applied for a leave of absence).
A penalty notice will be issued to each parent of each child whose attendance is poor or was taken on an unauthorised term time holiday or term time leave, or in the cases of exclusion where the pupil is present in a public place during the first 5 days.
This means that where a family is made up of a father, mother and 2 children, the family will receive 4 penalty notices. This is because the:
- father will receive 2 penalty notices, one per child
- mother will receive 2 penalty notices, one per child
All 4 penalty notices must be paid. If only one parent pays the penalty notice, legal proceedings are taken against the parent that has not paid.