Thirty convictions over poor school attendance

About 30 court convictions were secured against parents of children with poor attendance records at schools last year by the National Educational Welfare Board.

Wed, 20 Feb, 2013 - 00:00
Kathryn Hayes

The Educational Welfare Service worked with a total of 20,000 children with school attendance difficulties in 2012.

Of this figure, 3,000 of these cases involved children with “serious attendance difficulties”.

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