A fixed penalty notice will be issued once the national threshold has been met and can be issued for term-time leave or irregular attendance/punctuality. The threshold is 10 sessions of unauthorised absence in a rolling period of 10 school weeks.
A school week means any week in which there is at least one school session.

This can be met with any combination of unauthorised absence (e.g. 4 sessions of holiday taken in term time plus 6 sessions of arriving late after the register closes, all within 10 school weeks). These sessions can be consecutive (e.g. 10 sessions of holiday in one week) or not (e.g. 6 sessions of unauthorised absence taken in 1 week and 1 per week for the next 4 weeks).

The period of 10 school weeks can also span different terms or school years (e.g. 2 sessions of unauthorised absence in the Summer Term and a further 8 within the Autumn Term).

Exceptional circumstances: 
All schools can grant a leave of absence for exceptional circumstances at their discretion. Generally, the DfE does not consider a need or desire for a holiday or other absence for the purpose of leisure and recreation to be an exceptional circumstance.

To see Hampshire's guidance for penalty notices, please click here