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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Old Cruser on May 19, 2016, 01:14:11 PM
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I disagree with this ruling purely because when schools are out the pricing for holidays go up!
It's this that need stopping and not just in the UK.
Are they seriously telling us that all pupils back in my school days who had holidays during term ended up thick?
Did the hotels, caravans, boarding houses etc put their prices up back then?
As I didn't pay I have no idea but I remember we had our holidays in the August break and I can't see my dad paying higher prices - or maybe he did?
Either way I reckon one or two weeks off won't do that much damage.
solution anyone?
From DCC today
We await details of High Court ruling
19 May 2016
We're currently considering the implications of a High Court ruling on term-time holiday fines.
But we won't know exactly what it means for Derbyshire families until we get the full details of the judge's ruling.
"We're still waiting for the court's full written judgement,"
said our deputy cabinet member for children's services Councillor Caitlin Bisknell.
"It's unusual that it hasn't been released yet. But until we get it, we won't know its full implications."
The Government's rules on holidays in term time were thrown into doubt when the High Court upheld the Isle of Wight's magistrates' decision to find dad Jon Platt not guilty of failing to ensure his daughter's regular attendance at school after taking her on holiday to Florida.
He'd argued she'd attended school "regularly" − which is required by law − and won the backing of magistrates.
When the Isle of Wight Council appealed the magistrates' decision, High Court judges ruled in his favour.
The Government has now said it will look to tighten the rules on attendance.
Councillor Bisknell said:
"It's absolutely vital for children to attend school regularly and we work closely with our schools to improve attendance as we want to ensure as many Derbyshire children as possible are in school and learning.
"The revised policy on term-time holidays introduced by the Government in 2013 removed the discretion headteachers had in deciding whether or not to allow holidays during term time which has led to some parents being fined.
"The Government ruled that parents shouldn't take their children out of school for a holiday unless there are exceptional circumstances.
"We will be scrutinising the judge's written statement carefully as soon as it's released and we'll wait to see if the Government changes its policy on attendance.
"In the meanwhile, I'd urge parents in Derbyshire to bear with us until we know the full implications of the ruling."
The decision to issue penalty notices for unauthorised absence for holidays lies with headteachers who are following strict Government policy. We simply administer the process on the school's behalf.
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I have taken laura out of school a couple of times for a holiday as in all fairness i am not paying double the cost to go during the holidays. There needs to be something in place with these said holiday places to bring down the cost of holidays. I looked last year when we went to mablethorpe through Haven. We went in june, i paid somethin glike ?270 2 months later the exact same holiday same caravan etc was upward of ?600? How can that be justified.
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Greed , the holiday companies know that parents can't just take their kids out of school just like that so hit them with the higher price. The companies hit back by saying that they need to make the most out of the holiday season as the winter months are lame for trade. But by charging high prices will just put people off going given way how things are most would be struggling to go on holiday and once inquiried about a caravan at Skegness they wanted to charge me nearly a thousand pounds I told them I wanted to rent it for a week not buy it off them!
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If the cost of holidays was to be spread out over the 'season' maybe they would still be quids in and so would parents.
Equally the schools could stagger their holidays more - that would help!