East Lancashire parents fined £2,300 in truancy crackdown (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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East Lancashire parents fined £2,300 in truancy crackdown
12:30pm Tuesday 1st May 2012 in Rawtenstall
By Peter Magill, Chief reporter
A FRESH crackdown on truants in East Lancashire has left no fewer than eight parents facing bills for fines and costs totalling more than £2,300.
Lancashire County Council education chiefs have mounted prosecutions at Reedley Magistrates Court over unauthorised absences for five youngsters.
The parents who were punished were ...
Stephen Marsh and Lorraine Kenyon, both 46, of Hardman Avenue, Rawtenstall, each admitted failing to ensure their daughter Rosie Elizabeth Marsh attended Alder Grange Community and Technology College.
The pair were each conditionally discharged for six months with £50 costs and a £15 victim surcharge by magistrates.
Sheena Duckworth, 38, of Holland Avenue, Rawtenstall, and Michael Smith, 41, of Queens House, Rawtenstall, were convicted by magistrates after their daughter Alanna Jane Smith, 14, also persistently failed to attend Alder Grange.
Each was fined £525, with £100 costs to the education authority and a £15 victim surcharge, after the pair failed to attend court.
And Peter Swain, 46, of Pennine Road, Bacup, was similarly convicted over his daughter Rebecca Swain’s non-attendance at Fearns Community College. He was also fined £525 with £100 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
Earlier this month Muhammed Rauf, 34, of Ashford Street, Nelson, was convicted of a similar offence over absences involving his 10-year-old daughter Aisha Muhammed at Walverden Primary. He was fined £30 with £50 costs.
And Imran Mirza, 44, and Tahira Mirza, 42, of Parrock Road, Barrowford, were fined £135 and £45 respectively, with £45 costs each, after being found guilty in their absence of failing to ensure the attendance of their 10-year-old child Fatima Zarah at Lomeshaye Juniors.
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midas
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12:49pm Tue 1 May 12
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The other attended at Court and entered a guilty plea (30% reduction in sentence) and if they were on benefits their income is deemed to be £100. The Magistrates will have looked at their means and then determined the level of fine after consideration of the mitigation and their ability to pay.
happycyclist
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1:14pm Tue 1 May 12
GIBUCK
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3:28pm Tue 1 May 12
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gigglewizz
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4:05pm Tue 1 May 12
Graham Hartley
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6:07pm Tue 1 May 12
sen c bl
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6:13pm Tue 1 May 12
Try gettin money out of em.
timeforcommonsense
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9:05pm Tue 1 May 12
Good call
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10:11pm Tue 1 May 12
GIBUCK wrote:Why don't you stop going on about so called benefit scroungers and start complaining about things like jobcentre staff tricking people out of benefits. or ex army who've been diagnosed with PTSD being declared "fit to "work" by some jobcentre drone.And george osbourne wants to cut £10 billion more from welfare budget,we're all in this together yes we are all in this together,getting f****d by the government.Rant over.
"Duckworth, Smith and Swaine couldn't be bothered to turn up to Court (or even enter a plea by post) " .......they cant even be bothered to send their children to school, they dont know what their children get upto when they are not at school and you wonder why we see so many reports of ASBOs and delinquent children......blame the parents I dont give a **** what is said if a child is brought up with discipline they will learn to be discilined and will show respect to others and the community but not in this day of Jerremy Kyle sofa lounging, benefit hogging parents.............
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nice person
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12:18am Wed 2 May 12
Good call wrote:Very well said Good call.
GIBUCK wrote:Why don't you stop going on about so called benefit scroungers and start complaining about things like jobcentre staff tricking people out of benefits. or ex army who've been diagnosed with PTSD being declared "fit to "work" by some jobcentre drone.And george osbourne wants to cut £10 billion more from welfare budget,we're all in this together yes we are all in this together,getting f****d by the government.Rant over.
"Duckworth, Smith and Swaine couldn't be bothered to turn up to Court (or even enter a plea by post) " .......they cant even be bothered to send their children to school, they dont know what their children get upto when they are not at school and you wonder why we see so many reports of ASBOs and delinquent children......blame the parents I dont give a **** what is said if a child is brought up with discipline they will learn to be discilined and will show respect to others and the community but not in this day of Jerremy Kyle sofa lounging, benefit hogging parents.............
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Tell-it-how-it-is
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4:44pm Thu 24 May 12
happycyclist says...
12:44pm Tue 1 May 12