Only doctors can issue sick notes. Clinic attendance letters, often issued by nurses, are not sick notes and cannot be used as such. Ekurhuleni health practitioners have noted with concern an ...

In many schools, it’s not unheard of for principals and teachers to offer small prizes or pizza parties as an incentive to convince more students to aim for perfect attendance. State officials in ...

Eleven academy school head teachers have written to families in a joint letter over concerns about low pupil attendance. The group, made up of secondary heads in Norwich, said they were united in ...