This page covers the technical changes made to CME Guidance to reflect two new sets of regulations that came into force on August 19th 2024. My main page on Children Missing Education is here https://edyourself.org/children-missing-education/ FURTHER REVISED CME GUIDANCE WAS ISSUED IN SEPTEMBER 2025.
Two new sets of Regulations came into force on August 19th 2024: The School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024 [LINK] and The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 [LINK] Read more here https://edyourself.org/pupil-registration-regulations-2024/
As a result of these new regulations, several other documents have had to be updated, including Children Missing Education [CME] Guidance and Working Together to Improve School Attendance.
The Pupil Information Regulations 2024 represent a change to the law since for the first time schools must have an electronic management system to record attendance and absence that can be accessed by the Department for Education as explained here via this page Information about this is noted on pages 6-7 of the updated CME guidance.
Meanwhile under the new Pupil Registration Regulations schools must now make what is called “a sickness return” to the local authority if a pupil is marked absent through illness in the register for 15 days. This is noted on page 11 of the new CME Guidance.