A MOTHER from Radcliffe has been fined £200 and ordered to pay £185 costs to Bury Council after her daughter skipped school.
Jacqueline Murray, of Coleridge Avenue, was prosecuted at Bury Magistrates' Court last Thursday in a case pursued by the council's education welfare team.
The court heard that Murray's teenage daughter, a pupil at Derby High in Bury, was in school on 34 out of a possible 96 attendances between March 22 and June 18 this year.
In spite of efforts by a council education welfare officer, the parents, who lived at Olsberg Close, Radcliffe, at the time, missed several meetings and other opportunities to discuss their daughter's absences.
At one meeting which did take place on May 17, Murray was warned that legal action was being contemplated, but her daughter missed school again the following day and problems with her attendance continued.
Murray failed to turn up to court and was convicted in her absence.
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