I wish people would stop harpoing on about fines, and perhaps not take press headlines for granted 🙄 I mean you don’t for anything else, do you?
Most heads will decline an absence request unless its for absolutely clear cut necessity. Otherwise they could get embroiled in all sorts of ‘discrimination’ issues.
And you won’t get fined.
To administer a fine, the school needs to prove regular unauthorised absences, then take this to the local authority to administer. The whole process is very tedious and time consuming, and even with LA backing very difficult to make stick. You really need to be a very, very bad parent to get stuck with this.
Please stop reading the Daily Mail and get over it
Grrrr