Students who take gap years are more likely to smoke weed, "engage in risky behaviour" and earn less than those who go to university immediately after...
The troubled families programme is a major government initiative and one of its most prominent aims is to tackle problems with truancy and exclusion children of troubled families often have.
Police in Wiltshire are cracking down on truants by herding them out of bed and driving them to school in a bid to reduce anti-social behaviour. Th...
Fines for parents who do not ensure their children attend school should be increased, with the money taken automatically from their child benefit if t...
Rising numbers of pupils are skipping school without permission, official figures showed today. Statistics published by the Department for Educatio...
Education Secretary Michael Gove is to crack down on parents who take children out of school to go on holiday. Headteachers will lose the ability t...
A school has introduced a new way of getting truanting pupils to class - picking them up in the school bus. Harris Academy Merton, in Surrey, has ...
Persistant truancy in English state schools has increased by two per cent this year, figures published on Wednesday reveal. Truancy has reached th...
Schools are failing to comply with their child protection duties by unofficially and illegally excluding "difficult children", a think tank has warned...
Seven-year-olds are bringing knives and other weapons into school, research has revealed. The study conducted by the Centre for Social Justice (CS...
