Mum and dad fume after £500 fine for taking kids out of school to go to Florida - twice
Parents have lashed out at the authorities after they were fined almost £500 for repeatedly taking their children out of school to go on holiday. Paul Benson and wife Jessica took their children to Florida twice - and had two £240 fines as a result.
Mr Benson told YorkshireLive: “My wife is a hospital theatre nurse who worked during the coronavirus crisis and they have a massive backlog of operations they are doing at the moment and it is difficult for us to get time off when we can all go together.”“It’s not like they are truant students, they might have had a two week holiday and two or three sick days. It’s significantly cheaper to go outside term time.
Department for Education guideline say that you have to get permission from the head teacher if you want to take your child out of school during term time. It adds that there are two circumstances you can take your child out when school is taking place: “We seem to be one of the few countries in the world that has this system [of fines], it seems unfair, and should be properly approached on a case by case basis. If you are taking the mick with poor attendance to start with, maybe you shouldn’t be granted that holiday, but if you are not abusing the system you should be entitled to take a family holiday when you want without being fined.
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