P-05-807 Review and change the guidance for attendance awards in welsh schools

P-05-807 Review and change the guidance for attendance awards in welsh schools

Completed

 

P-05-807 Review and change the guidance for attendance awards in Welsh schools

 

This petition was submitted by Laura Charles-Price having collected 123 signatures.

 

Text of Petition

We call on the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to review any guidance it issues on school attendance awards in Wales.

 

Many children across Wales suffer with chronic illnesses that affect their school attendance. A child may miss school due to the illness itself or due to hospital appointments which they have to attend related to this illness.


Each year attendance awards are given out at school which many of these children miss out on.  Not only is this unfair but it also discriminates against those children.


I would like to propose that the Welsh Government either makes allowances for those children or advises local authorities and schools that attendance awards should not be given.

 

Desks and Chairs

 

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 04/02/2020.

The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to close the petition in light of the fact that the Welsh Government is currently reviewing school-attendance guidance with a view to issuing a public consultation in future, and the commitment given by the Minister for Education that introducing scope to record absences as being related to a chronic health condition is being considered as part of that work.

Full details of the consideration of this petitions by the committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.

It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 17/04/2018.

 

Assembly Constituency and Region

·         Gower   

·         South Wales West

 

Further information

 

 

 

Business type: Petition

Reason considered: Senedd Business;

Status: Complete

First published: 09/04/2018