The Government’s figures for Southampton are shocking. As recently reported in the Daily Echo, “Almost one in 14 Southampton secondary school pupils – 7.3 per cent – missed the equivalent of at least 32 days in a single term.” The national average is just 4.5 per cent.
Southampton’s Conservative Council has cut resources to tackle truancy, which would have helped some of the most vulnerable children in our community. They could have protected this service and still balanced the books. Please TAKE A STAND to show that you believe this is a priority by completing the petition below.
We the undersigned call on the Council to reconsider their decision to cut resources to help to protect some of the most vulnerable children in Southampton, and the communities they affect, by tackling it’s acute truancy problem.
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