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Bath and North East Somerset District Council v Warman: Admn 19 Nov 1998

A fifteen year old girl absented herself from school when she went to live with a boyfriend at an address which was not known to her mother. The justices acquitted the mother for failing to secure her attendance at school on the basis of ‘any unavoidable cause’ but the prosecutor’s appeal to the Divisional Court was allowed for the same reasons as in Jenkins v Howels and Crump v. Gilmore, both of which were followed.
Held: The construction placed of this statutory provision in the authorities makes the conclusion inescapable that the circumstances did not give rise to unavoidable cause for the child’s absence from school.
Lord Justice Rose
[1999] ELR 81, [1998] EWHC Admin 1078
Bailii
Education Act 1993 444
England and Wales
Cited by:
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CitedIsle of Wight Council v Platt SC 6-Apr-2017
Regular school attendance is following the rules
The respondent had taken his child out of school during term time to go on holiday. The child otherwise had an excellent attendance record. The Council having failed on appeal to the Administrative Court, it appealed saying that the word ‘regularly’ . .

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Updated: 14 September 2021; Ref: scu.139199 br>

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