School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill

Key Points

• - Local authorities must exercise their functions to improve and promote regular attendance for registered pupils in their area.
• - School proprietors (owners/operators) must have an attendance policy that promotes regular attendance.
• - The measure sits within education policy and will be developed through Parliament's usual stages; the bill has reached the Lords at its first reading with accompanying explanatory documents.
• - The bill is currently at an early stage of passage in the Lords after originating in the Commons.

Progress

The bill is at the Lords' first reading and has just begun its passage; it originated in the Commons and will progress through further readings, committees and debates if it continues.