Submitted on Wednesday 15th October 2025
Rejected on Friday 21st November 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Exceptional circumstances for children's leave from school
Include 'children's visit to see their expat parent overseas' as an exceptional circumstance for the granting of authorised leave from school
I am a father of two children (both at secondary school) who currently works overseas in order to provide for his family. We have reverently had an application for leave rejected by our school on the basis it does not consistute exceptional circumstances. We are extremely careful of when we arrange family visits etc, however, and sometimes this does mean having to take our children out of school for a few ddays.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Attendance policy is a matter for the school to decide.
You may like to start a petition for the Government to introduce statutory guidance on when exceptional circumstances apply instead.
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