Dock truants' child benefit, ministers urged
published by lollywood on 16 April, 2012 - 18:05
Parents of children in England who persistently truant should have their child benefit cut, according to a key government adviser on school behaviour.
Behaviour tsar Charlie Taylor says unpaid truancy fines should be recovered directly from child-benefit payments in a crackdown on absenteeism.
The latest figures show 400,000 children were persistently absent from England's schools in the past year and missed about one month of school each.