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Nursery World, 23 May 2002

'Whatever the underlying cause - poverty, lack of parental interest, failure to take truancy seriously - this remains a shocking story. Considering how widespread truancy is, we could be seeing hundreds, even thousands, more parents going to prison.' Mike Baker, BBC Online education correspondent, on the imprisonment of Patricia Amos, whose daughters were persistent truants

'Whatever the underlying cause - poverty, lack of parental interest, failure to take truancy seriously - this remains a shocking story. Considering how widespread truancy is, we could be seeing hundreds, even thousands, more parents going to prison.' Mike Baker, BBC Online education correspondent, on...

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