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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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1 results foundAuthor: Epstein, Rona Title: Prosecuting Parents for Truancy: Who pays the price? Summary: The law - In England and Wales, the offence of truancy is deemed to have been committed by parents or carers of school age children whose children have not attended school regularly. - Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 sets out a parental duty to secure the efficient education of children by ensuring the child's regular attendance at school or otherwise. - If the child fails to attend school regularly the parent is guilty of an offence. Under Subsection 444 (1) the offence is strict liability; the parent is not required to know that the child has missed school. If, for example, the child was living with her grandmother and missed school, the child's parents would be liable for prosecution for their child's truancy, even if they did not know she was missing school. Under Subsection 444 (1A) there is a further offence if the parent knew about the child's absence and failed to act. - The punishment can be a fine up to L2,500 or a term of imprisonment. Numbers - In 2017 in England and Wales 16,406 people were prosecuted, of whom 11, 739 (71%) were women. - 12, 698 were convicted, of whom 9,413 (74%) were women. - 110 people were given a suspended sentence of imprisonment, 88 (80%) were women. - 500 were given a community order - 416 (83%) were women. - Ten people were sent to prison, 9 were women. - It is thus clear that women are disproportionately pursued for this offence. The research - We wished to explore the reasons that lie behind children failing to attend school regularly, what problems this created for the family, the parents' views of how the schools tackled their child's problems, and whether or not the parents were prosecuted or threatened with prosecution. - We placed a questionnaire online and invited parents affected by this issue to fill it in anonymously. We approached various online sites where parents discuss childcare issues. A number of these sites posted a note about our research with a link to the online survey. - 126 parents, mostly mothers, filled in our anonymous survey, giving information on 132 children. Since the survey was filled in anonymously we have assigned a name to each respondent and report their answers with this pseudonym together with the Local Authority responsible for their child's school... Details: Coventry, UK: Coventry Law School, 2019. 71p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 14, 2019 at: http://covrj.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PROSECUTINGParents.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://covrj.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PROSECUTINGParents.pdf Shelf Number: 154609 Keywords: Parental LiabilityParental Responsibility School Attendance Truancy Truants |