By IANS,
London : As many as 67,000 children skip school in Britain as truancy levels continue to rise, official data has revealed.
Pupils missing school due to “unauthorised absences” is now 44 percent higher than what it was in 1996-97, Daily Express reported.
About 67,000 pupils of all ages missed schools through truancy, family holidays and illness, shows data from the Department of Children, Schools and Families.
The data also show that hundreds of thousands of “persistent absentees” miss a whole term every year.
“There are no magic solutions to hardcore truanting. Despite schools’ best efforts, hard-to-reach families will remain hard to reach,” Christine Blower of the National Union of Teachers was quoted as saying.
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