Referrals to the Access and Inclusion Service
Refer a child with poor school attendance
Find out more about our school attendance officers, who will contact you if your child is referred as missing school.
There are currently no traveller education liaison officers in post, so we can't take referrals.
If you have a query regarding Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families, please email grt@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk and we'll aim to respond within 5 working days.
For general enquiries, child employment/performance licences, penalty notices, school attendance orders and legal action at magistrate's court, please email access.inclusion@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk, childemployment@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or legal.interventions@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5651/6321
School attendance: 0300 300 4722.
Exclusions or part-time timetables: access.inclusion@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or 0300 300 6689
Children missing education: cme@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
Elective home education: ehe@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
For any safeguarding concerns please call: 0300 300 8585 (office hours) or 0300 300 8123 (out of office hours)
Documents and forms
- Non-school Attendance – Fixed Penalty Notices - comes into force on 19 August 2024 (Word)
- Regulation 13 The School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024 - 10 Day Continuous Unauthorised Absence, 15 Day Continuous Absence and 15 day continuous-cumulative sickness absence mandatory return - schools signed up to our Studybugs system are not required to complete this form as we automatically monitor for these thresholds
- Traveller Education Engagement Process and Procedures (PDF)
- Pastoral Support Programme guidance (Word)
- parents' guide to prosecutions (PDF)
- Penalty Notice (Exclusions) Access and Inclusion Code of Conduct (PDF)
- Penalty Notice (Attendance) Access and Inclusion Code of Conduct (PDF)
- Penalty Notice (Attendance) Access and Inclusion Code of Conduct, effective 19 August 2024 (PDF)
- request a penalty notice request
- request a penalty notice form: suspension/permanent exclusion (Word)
- penalty notice leaflet for parents (PDF)
- family holidays in term time (PDF)
- frequently asked questions (PDF)
- definition of a parent (Word)