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Parents, who persistently refuse to send their children to school, face a swingeing increase in fines and could be worse off by £5000.
Persistent truancy is a real problem, the Department of Education admits.
The move to increase the potential fine five-fold follows criticism that the previous level was inadequate.
Education Minister Anne Craine (pictured) takes a hard line on the issue:
Staff at Noble's Hospital thanked for sacrificing Christmas Day
Doctors, housekeepers, porters and catering teams among those who'll be working this year
Charity available to listen to those struggling over festive period
Samaritans received 250,000 throughout the British Isles last Christmas
Change of date for offshore windfarm preliminary meeting
Meeting will set out the timetable and process for the examination of the application
'Eat that extra mince pie this Christmas'
Intuitive eating counsellor urges us to reconsider our definition of 'healthy' over the festive period
