Parents who refuse to send their children back to school this term in Wales will not be fined.
Wales' education minister Kirsty Williams set out her plans for the re-opening of schools to all pupils at a press conference on Wednesday.
Schools will re-open to all pupils on June 29, almost three months after being ordered to close in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Term will be extended by one week to end on July 27 to give children and staff time to catch up before the summer break. The autumn half term in October will be extended from one week to two.
The Welsh Government says pupils are expected to attend school, but families will not be fined if they do not send their children to school this term.
Their guidance adds that children and teachers who are shielding or at more risk, including pregnant workers, are not expected to return this term.
This also applies for pupils and teachers who live with relatives who are shielding.
Ms Williams said she will respect the decision of any parent at this time. No parent will be fined for making decisions that they feel are best for them or best for their family, she said.
Ms Williams said: "At this stage we have no plans to fine parents for choosing not to send their children to school."
She also reassured schools and teachers they won't be held accountable for attendance numbers.
Ms Williams said any children in receipt of a shielding letter - approximately 4,000 in Wales - should not return to school or use the opportunity of these check-in sessions.
She said there are 14,000 children in Wales whose parents have a shielding letter: these children should also not participate and should not go to school, she said.
The education minister said schools will support these children and they will not be disadvantaged.
It comes after First Minister Mark Drakeford reassured parents last month that he didn't want to punish them for refusing to send their children to school.
He previously said: "My message to parents is that we will not be reopening schools until we are satisfied that we are able to do so in a way that protects your child's health and wellbeing.
"There will be no rush to reopen schools in Wales as they were just before just before and after Christmas.
"When we do come to open schools it will be done in a careful and measured way where new safeguards are built into the system; where we have discussed the way schools can run with local education authorities and with teachers themselves."
He told parents: "We will not be asking you to send your child to school until we can say to you that we have thought about those things and put those measures in place."
And, asked if parents would be fined for refusing to send their children back to school, he said he didn't want to use compulsion.
He said: "I am not attracted the idea of compulsion as the way to persuade people of this.
"I think we need to move by persuasion that we can persuade people we have done the right things and their child will be safe and then I think we will succeed in bringing parents and pupils along with us."
