Prosecutions of parents for their child’s truancy soar to 20,000 a year after a ban on term-time holidays January 9, 2019
Education Truancy detectives: schools hire ‘attendance ambassadors’ to doorknock parents of children who fail to turn up March 21, 2017
Benefit cuts for parents will fail if we ignore the reasons why young people skip class October 8, 2015
Today’s poll: Should truancy fines be deducted from benefits for parents who don’t pay? October 6, 2015
School shamed as worst for truancy in the country four years ago continues transformation December 1, 2014
Parent whose son missed school attacked truancy officer with candlestick in bloody attack November 7, 2014
Pregnant mother sentenced to jail after she repeatedly allowed her son to play truant from school November 1, 2014
Pupils foiled as they try to tunnel to freedom under 12ft steel fence – with cutlery from school canteen July 7, 2014
Ministers left red-faced after figures showing huge drop in skipped school days are withdrawn May 23, 2014
