Summary
Education Minister Jane Davidson was accused yesterday of fiddling school figures to hide an embarrassing increase in truancy.
Her press release about 'encouraging' new attendance statistics makes no mention of the fact that unauthorised absence was more than 6% higher in 2003-04 than the previous year.See the full content of this document
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'Truancy Figures Just Don't Add Up, Minister ... '
Instead it welcomes a 1% decline in overall absenteeism, taking authorised and unauthorised absence together.
The row blew up as Michael Howard, leader of the UK Tory party, admitted he used to play truant from Llanell...See the full content of this document
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