Increasing truancy fines would not help school absence rates, Phillipson says

Bridget Phillipson said she believes ‘lecturing people’ without offering support would not help improve attendance

Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, she said: “I’m not convinced that increasing fines is the answer and I think you do actually see across the country real variation in how those fines are applied. And parents, I think rightly, raised concerns about that.” Truancy fines formed part of the education policy of former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair, whose rhetoric has previously been echoed by current leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Elsewhere, the party refused to commit to spending more on a school-rebuilding programme amid a crisis over crumbly concrete that has forced classrooms to shut days before the new term.

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