LETTER: A family holiday is not truancy

I think truancy is a completely different thing to a family holiday or an occasional day for a legitimate reason.

By The Newsroom

Published 30th May 2016, 08:18 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:43 BST

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Any official who simply rubber stamps a fine without engaging the brain and an ounce of humanity to check the circumstances is not doing their job properly.

Hilly Clewett

Crawley

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