School Attendance Sub-committee Of The Education Committee - 27/02/2001
At a MEETING of the SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUB-COMMITTEE of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 27th February, 2001.
Present:-
Mr David MURDOCH, Mr Alan KEIR, Councillors Rod WALLACE, and Betty WARD
(Items I - VII only).
Mr MURDOCH, in the Chair.
All items stand delegated.
The Sub-Committee resolved, under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the undernoted item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 5 of Schedule 7A of the Act.
I MINUTE OF MEETING OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUB-COMMITTEE OF 23RD JANUARY, 2001
The minute of the above meeting were submitted for information.
II CORRESPONDENCE
The Chairman distributed and commented on correspondence he had received from and responded to from the Reporter to the Children's Panel.
III FORM CS4
The Chairman commented that it would be helpful to the Committee in arriving at decisions if schools would provide as much detailed information as available, in order to assist the Committee in its deliberations.
IV EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1980 - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE DEFAULT CASES
Following consideration of the undernoted school attendance default cases, the Sub-Committee resolved as follows:-
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Case No |
Decision
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(i) |
DC15/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to Children's Panel.
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(ii) |
DC16/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an attendance order and refer to Reporter to Children's Panel.
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(iii) |
DC1/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(iv) |
DC127/00 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(v) |
DC17/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order. |
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(vi) |
DC18/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(vii) |
DC19/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order. |
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Case No |
Decision
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(viii) |
DC20/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.
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(ix) |
DC21/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(x) |
DC22/01 |
Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order.
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(xi) |
DC3/01 |
Take no further action but advise parents that attendance will be monitored and case brought back to the Sub-Committee if necessary.
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(xii) |
DC4/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(xiii) |
DC5/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(xiv) |
DC6/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(xv) |
DC7/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(xvi) |
DC126/01 |
Take no further action but advise parents that attendance will be monitored and case brought back to the Sub-Committee if necessary.
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(xvii) |
DC23/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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(xviii) |
DC24/01 |
Continued for up to six weeks.
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David Murdoch, Chairman.
APPENDIX II