New Staff Absence Return Form to be used by schools for notifying the Employee Services Centre of staff sickness and unpaid absences with effect from January 2009.

Up until now the green staff return form has been sent out to schools with payslips just before the 19^th of the month, you will receive your last staff return form in this way in December. Please use this to record absences up to 19^th January 2009.

For absences occurring after 19^th January 2009 please use the new Staff Absence Return Form which can be downloaded from the Norfolk Schools website. Click here to view the form and guidance notes.

The completed and authorised form should then be sent to the Employee Services Centre each month by the relevant deadline, as advised in MI sheet 137/08. Please ensure the form is fully completed with the number of hours absent and the nature of the illness or injury. This will help us to ensure pay is correct and the nature of the absence correctly recorded for management information purposes.

This form was due to be included with the schools' Termly Reminder letter last week but was unfortunately omitted.