Barnardos: Docking children's allowance not the way to tackle poor school attendance

Barnardos says docking parents their children's allowance isn't the way to tackle poor school attendance.

Barnardos: Docking children's allowance not the way to tackle poor school attendance

Barnardos says docking parents their children's allowance is not the way to tackle poor school attendance.

It is after new figures show parents have been issued with legal proceedings by Tusla more than 200 times over the past two years because their children attended school so little.

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