Rory Murder Prompts Truancy Review Local Authorities Plan New Scheme to Report Absent Pupils in Wake of Schoolboy Murder Probe
Sunday Herald › August 29, 2005
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THE murder of schoolboy Rory Blackhall has led a number Scottish local authorities to review the way they report absent children to parents.
An investigation by the Sunday Herald found that more than a quarter of local authorities said recent events had forced them to rethink their procedures.See the full content of this document
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Rory Murder Prompts Truancy Review Local Authorities Plan New Scheme to Report Absent Pupils in Wake of Schoolboy Murder Probe
A majority of authorities in the country have taken up a pilot scheme for the new Truancy Call system whereby an automated system repeatedly phones a parent until someone answers. It also allows e- mails and text messages to be sent when a child fails to attend lessons.
A spokesman for West Lothian Council, which is responsible for Meldrum Primary sc...See the full content of this document
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