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School attendance law in the High Court: term-time holidays despite the legal fog?

By Neville Harris Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 27, 2016

Parents of school-age children know all too well that family holiday prices have a tendency to sky rocket during school holiday periods. Most also know, or thought they did, that they could be fined if they took their children out of school without good reason.  So there was huge public interest in the recent case […]

Tagged With: department for education, education, Education Act 1996, law, school attendance policy

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