Huge increase in parents being prosecuted for child truancy in Cambridgeshire amid government crackdown
Published: 11:48, 11 February 2019
| Updated: 16:34, 13 June 2019
More than three times as many parents in Cambridgeshire are being prosecuted for truancy compared to five years ago, amid a government crackdown on unauthorised school absences.
Councils covered by Cambridgeshire police took 297 parents to court in 2017, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show.