School Attendance Sub-committee Of The Education Committee - 21/10/2003

At a MEETING of the SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUB-COMMITTEE of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE held in CommitteeRoom 3, City Chambers, Dundee on Tuesday, 21st October, 2003.

 

Present:-

 

Mr David MURDOCH, Mr Alan Keir, Bailie Corrigan and Councillors Joe Morrow (items (i) ? (iii) and (v)) and Rod Wallace.

 

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 EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1980 - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE DEFAULT CASES

 

Following consideration of the undernoted school attendance default cases, the Sub-Committee resolved as follows:-

 

 

Case No

Decision

 

 

 

(i)

DC58/03

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.

 

(ii)

DC56/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(iii)

DC57/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(iv)

DC59/03

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an Attendance Order.

 

(v)

DC15/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID MURDOCH, Chairman.