Hi I would like to get married at the beginning of September in Spain. My neices (bridesmaids) and nephew are 6 and 9, they return to school in the first week of sept, what is the goverments ruling on kids missing a few days off school to go to an overseas wedding? Is it up to schools discretion? any comments gratefully received!
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Absence is granted at the discretion of the head teacher. You can take your child out of school for a few days but the school does not have to authorise it. If it is an unauthorised absence it will not have much impact on the child - it's more about government funding for the school. If the child has several unauthorised absences in the year the Educational Welfare Officer may be called in to investigate. Some areas of the UK fine parents for unauthorised absences but they need a clear policy in place to do this - a phone call to the education authority for that area will confirm if this is in place and will let you know how much. Schools like to pretend they can randomly fine parents when they wish-this is not the case as I said before. Head teachers are very anti unauthorised absence because if the school has a lot in one year then its funding for staff and resources for the following academic year will be lower. Having said all of that if the children only miss a couple of days it won't really matter.
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