Supreme Court to hear holiday fine case this week
Thirty-five councils in England have changed their policy on fining parents who take their children out of school on holiday.
The figure was revealed by the BBC, ahead of the Supreme Court case this week, in which judges will consider what constitutes ‘regular attendance’.
The Supreme Court will meet to hear the case of Isle of Wight father Jon Platt, who was fined by his local authority for taking his daughter out of school for a term-time holiday.
The BBC gathered information from 108 councils and found 35 have changed their policy as a direct result of Jon Platt’s case.
A further five are currently reviewing their guidelines and 28 have withdrawn fines issued to parents.
The BBC investigation found a ‘remarkable variation in the number of fixed penalty notices issued to parents’.
Of the councils that provided information, 22 told the BBC the number of parents taking term-time holidays has increased.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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