Select Committee on Home Affairs Written Evidence

APPENDIX 73

Memorandum submitted by Bradford Council

HOLIDAY/EXTENDED LEAVE IN TERM TIME

—  A total of 279 pupils, in Years 7 to 12 had at least one session of absence due to Family Holiday/Extended Leave -in the 4 week period from 25 February to 20 March 2008. (Note: 1 session is half a day).

  Data was collected from 21 out of the 29 Secondary Schools in Bradford.

—  We request this from all schools but not all provide it (they make returns to the DCFS).

—  The key point to note with reference to the Committee's concerns is that all schools notify us of all pupils who do not return when expected from family holiday/extended leave.

—  The 279 pupils represents 1.3% of the population of these schools.

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUPILS BY GENDER FROM EACH SCHOOL

Female	Male	Total Pupils
4	14	18
	2	2
11	11	22
2	5	7
8	14	22
2	2	4
14		14
14	14	28
9	5	14
6	10	16
8	3	11
8	3	11
4	6	10
5	16	21
5	7	12
	6	6
8		8
4	8	12
6	9	15
10	11	21
4	1	5
132	147	279

NUMBER OF PUPILS BY YEAR GROUP AND GENDER

Year Group	Female	Male
Year 7	22	31
Year 8	33	32
Year 9	32	26
Year 10	22	30
Year 11	13	19
Year 12	10	9

NUMBER OF PUPILS BY ETHNICITY AND GENDER

Ethnicity Code	Meaning	Female	Male	total	percentage
AAO	Any other Asian Background	8	5	13	4.7
ABA	Bangladeshi	3	4	7	2.5
AIN	Indian	6	10	16	5.7
AMI	Mirpuri Pakistani	16	22	38	13.6
AOP	Other Pakistani	31	26	57	20.4
BLB	Black Caribbean	1	1	2	0.7
BLF	African	0	1	1	0.4
CHE	Chinese	0	1	1	0.4
MOT	Any other Mixed Background	1	1	2	0.7
MWA	White/Asian	1	1	2	0.7
MWB	White/Black Caribbean	1	1	2	0.7
NOT	No information obtained	1	0	1	0.4
OEO	Any other ethnic group	3	2	5	1.8
WHA	Any other White background	4	3	7	2.5
WHB	British	56	69	125	44.8

—  Of the 279 pupils, 189 took Holiday/Extended Leave with the agreement of the school.

—  90 pupils took Holiday/Extended leave without the permission of the school or days in excess of the agreed number of days.

NUMBER OF SESSIONS MISSED

No of Sessions of absence	No of Pupils	% Pupils
1 to 9 sessions	132	47.31
10 to 19 sessions	112	40.14
20 to 29 sessions	29	10.39
Over 30 sessions	6	2.15

BREAKDOWN BY LENGTH OF ABSENCE SHOWING NUMBERS BY GENDER, AGED 16 OR MORE AND ETHNICITY

Number of sessions absence due to holidays/extended leave (1 session = 0.5 of a day)	Number of female students	Number of females who are 16 or older	Number of 16+ females who are of SE Asian heritage	Number of females who are 17 or older	Number of 17+ females who are of SE Asian heritage
30 or more	3	0	0	0	0
20 or more	18	2	2	0	0
10 or more	71	11	3	4	3
1 or more	132	13	5	6	3
Number of sessions absence due to holidays/extended leave (1 session = 0.5 of a day)	Number of male students	Number of males who are 16 or older	Number of 16+ males who are of SE Asian heritage	Number of males who are 17 or older	Number of 17+ males who are of SE Asian heritage
30 or more	3	0	0	0	0
20 or more	17	3	3	0	0
10 or more	76	8	5	1	0
1 or more	147	15	8	5	2
March 2008

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Prepared 13 June 2008