The government will press ahead with tougher attendance rules forcing all schools to hold electronic registers that the education secretary will have direct access to.
But proposals to introduce “thresholds at which a penalty notice must be considered” for unauthorised absences remain in limbo as they were tied to the shelved schools bill.
The Department for Education has responded today to its consultation on the changes – which it hoped would help slash persistent absence rates.
Ministers have said the “new regulations will be laid before parliament in due course [and will] come into force no sooner than the beginning of academic year 2024-25”.
