School Attendance Sub-committee Of The Education Committee - 16/12/2003

At a MEETING of the SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUB-COMMITTEE of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE held in CommitteeRoom 3, City Chambers, Dundee on Tuesday, 16th December, 2003.

 

Present:-

 

Mr David MURDOCH, Mr Tom CONNELLY, and Councillors Kevin KEENAN and Elizabeth F FORDYCE.

 

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)

DC60/03

Take no further action but advise parents that attendance will be monitored and case brought back to the Sub-Committee if necessary.

 

(ii)

DC66/03

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks and make an attendance order.

 

(iii)

DC67/03

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.

 

(iv)

DC68/03

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.

 

(v)

DC58/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(vi)

DC62/03

Prosecute.

 

(vii)

DC63/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(viii)

DC64/03

Prosecute.

 

(ix)

DC65/03

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(x)

DC15/03

Take no further action.

 

 

 

 

DAVID MURDOCH, Chairman.