al authority within five days when a pupil’s name is added to the admission register (a ‘new pupil return’). Schools will need to provide the local authority with all the information held within the admission register about the pupil. This duty does not apply when a pupil’s name is entered in the admission register at a standard transition point – at the 23 Regulation 13(4)-(6) of the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024. 24 Under regulation 13(1) to (3) of the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024 11 start of the first year of education normally provided by that school – unless the local authority requests for such information to be provided. All schools must make a return to the local authority (an ‘attendance return’) with the full name and address of any pupil of compulsory school age who is not a boarder and has failed to attend regularly ( excluding codes D, K, V or B) or has missed ten consecutive school days or more with their absence being recorded in the attendance register in ways statistically recorded as unauthorised absence.25 All schools must also make a return to the local authority (a ‘sickness return’) where a pupil of compulsory school age has been recorded in the attendance register as absent using code I (illness) and the school have reasonable grounds to believe that the pupil will be, or will have been unable to attend school because of illness for at least 15 school days during the school year, whether consecutive or not.26 Providing information on standard transitions As set out in paragraph 24, schools are under an automatic duty to provide information to the local authority for non-standard transitions. This relates to pupils removed from the admission register before completing the fina