ABSTRACT
Throughout this handbook there are sections that are related to parents, pupils’ home backgrounds, home-school links, social influences and truancy. Information on one-parent families, for example, is provided in unit 8. However, this unit specifically brings together the remainder of some of the latest
thinking on the importance of parental influences and their relationship to truancy. For this reason, this unit is sub-divided into several parts. These are:
• school attendance: information for parents • parents and truancy: background aspects • Government policies on combating truancy • parents and sound foundations • where parents lay the blame for truancy
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE: INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
If you are a parent of (or are responsible for) a child aged between 5 and 16 who is registered at school, the following information explains your responsibilities for making sure your child attends school regularly. It also provides teachers with the essential facts.
