Parents of truants convicted – 8,000

Friday 19 November 2010 at 7:33 am | In News | Post Comment
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The Press Association has obtained figures from the Ministry of Justice which show that more than 10,600 people were prosecuted with over 8,000 convicted in 2009 because of their child’s truancy.

This is the equivalent of 56 parents facing criminal proceedings every day of the school year.

Some 14 were sent to jail facing an average sentence of around one month.

The threat of prosecution and the possibility of a jail term were part of new truancy sanctions introduced under the last Government.

Since the measures were introduced, the numbers facing prosecution have rocketed. In 2001, it is thought that around 1,900 people were prosecuted with around 1,500 convicted.

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