The £60 penalty wasn't used much in lockdown - but now some children have a habit of missing school.
Almost 1.8 million children missed at least 10% of school in the autumn term in England, according to the children's commissioner for England
The number of non-attendance fines being handed out dropped off during the pandemic, as self-isolation rules and lockdowns led to millions of children learning at home.almost 1.8 million children regularly missed schoolAs part of a mission to tackle this, parents have been fined £3.7m for the school year so far, figures obtained by the BBC show.
For a while she was living with her older sister, who didn't try to make her go to school, and soon Olivia was barely leaving the house - becoming more isolated and depressed as she spent her days scrolling through her phone."I was in such a negative mindset - I didn't care about school, I didn't care about my grades."
At nine in the morning, they work their way through a list of phone numbers of parents of Year 10 pupils who haven't arrived.
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