School Attendance Sub-committee Of The Education Committee - 28/04/2004

At a MEETING of the SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUB-COMMITTEE of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE held in Committee Room 3, City Chambers, Dundee on Wednesday, 28th April 2004.

 

Present:-

 

Mr David MURDOCH, Mr Tom CONNELLY, Bailie John CORRIGAN and Councillors Fraser MACPHERSON (Items (i) to (viii) 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 press and public 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 Part I 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)

DC36/04

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks, make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

(ii)

DC37/04

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks, make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

(iii)

DC38/04

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks, make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

(iv)

DC39/04

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

 

(v)

DC9/04

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

 

(vi)

DC25/04

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(vii)

DC8/04

Prosecute.

 

(viii)

DC40/04

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(ix)

DC41/04

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks, make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

(x)

DC42/04

Warn parents and defer decision to prosecute for up to six weeks, make an Attendance Order and refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

(xi)

DC43/04

Refer to Reporter to the Children's Panel.

 

 

 

Case No

Decision

 

 

 

(xii)

DC21/04

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

(xiii)

DC20/04

Continued for up to six weeks.

 

 

 

 

DAVID MURDOCH, Chairman.