| If they were encouraging genuine truants back to school then I would be entirely supportive. |
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| A Swindon school has found a new way to beat the truants and encourage good behaviour. |
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| Known truants were staying in school and had been deterred from leaving school grounds. |
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| A national crackdown on truancy has seen fast-track court action against parents of hardcore truants. |
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| The school collaborates with a charity to inspire and re-engage underachieving pupils and chronic truants. |
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| But the local education authority warned that pupils who attended the demonstration would be treated as truants. |
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| Why not bring this regime back for the hard-core truants, if they won't attend school during school time make them attend in their own time. |
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| Numbers of truants are so high education social workers do not have the resources to spend a lot of time with all the families involved. |
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| School truants are to be targeted this month as part of a joint operation by the council and police. |
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| Maybe the authorities should put some structures in place, like perhaps a truant officer to accost these truants. |
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| As part of the crackdown against absenteeism, the parents of persistent truants have been threatened with tougher fines and jail sentences. |
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| Bradford's high-profile park rangers have helped to catch 400 truants, working with police in 16 operations in the past year. |
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| The service's team manager, Juliet Yolland, said recidivist truants were typically missing between 60-80 percent of the 186-day school year. |
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| A police crackdown on school truants in the north-west area seems to be making progress. |
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| Students are considered habitual truants if they have 10 or more unexcused absences in a school year. |
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| Learning mentors will work with primary schoolchildren, who are deemed at risk of becoming truants. |
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| He is also proposing placing police in and around schools to round up truants. |
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| The vast majority of the truants would readily acknowledge in the aftermath that they were only out for a skive following a wind-up on the web. |
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| But she wonders if ministers quite understand the real world when she hears ideas such as head teachers' issuing fixed penalty notice fines to truants ' parents. |
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| Parents of long-term truants across the country have been contacting their local councils for advice on getting their children back to school. |
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| We know that 4,048 students were reported as long-term truants last year. |
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| Some students have been warned that they will be treated as truants. |
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| So many failed to show up that the government laid on extra sessions for the truants. |
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| Mind you, at this time in the afternoon, the only people around are pensioners, mums, carers, the unemployed and truants. |
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| At age 10, persistent delinquents are often more daring and aggressive than average, and as young teenagers, they are often under-achievers and truants. |
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| This includes co-operation between officers and civilians to scrub off graffiti, run youth clubs, provide tutoring and counselling services and keep an eye open for truants. |
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| In the old days they had a simple name for all these types: truants. |
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| On the evidence of a Tuesday morning phone-in, the current audience consists of extremely dimwitted truants but I doubt if even they will be fooled for long by the Hello! magazine jollity. |
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| You often find serial truants are themselves the children of truants and school refusers. |
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| But that is still one-quarter of all the world's truants. |
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