Parents are being fined £60 if their children are a few minutes late for school

If I have a kid in that school,first, I would make sure I don't stay far from such school.Especially,When I'm aware of the implication cost on my monthly income. I would rather prefer to be stress up than to enrich the school excluding fees. This is report I got from dailymail that:
Parents are being fined £60 if their children are a few minutes late for school in a tough new crackdown on discipline.

Two headteachers in the same local authority are believed to be the first to take the action in an attempt to slash truancy rates.

The parents of a persistent offender face a £60 fixed penalty – which can be doubled if they fail to pay within 21 days.
Headteachers have been able to impose financial penalties on the parents of regular truants since 2003, but Milton Keynes Council has said schools can classify children as skipping school even if they arrive late.
Two schools have adopted the policy, including Emerson Valley School, which was rated inadequate by Ofsted inspectors last year.
It has issued parents with a warning that they will be fined if a child misses registration ten times in a 12-week term. The school said: ‘The link between good attendance and pupils achieving well at school is clear.
‘During the recent Ofsted monitoring inspection it was noted that “strategies to improve attendance and punctuality have resulted in a significant increase in the proportion of pupils who come to school on time”.
‘At the end of the autumn term 2013, 353 pupils at Emerson Valley School received certificates for 100 per cent punctuality. This is a big improvement on previous years and has been achieved through working with our families.’
But the policy has infuriated some parents. Georgina Hodgkinson, 40, said: ‘There needs to be a deterrent but I think it puts lots of pressure on parents and does break the commitment between the school and families.
‘If you have got, like we have, children in different schools, you are trying to navigate logistics from one to the other and there  are always going to be some problems.’
But another parent, who asked not to be named, said: ‘Kids arriving late cause disruption and this has made parents sit up and take notice.’
Education experts welcomed the policy, but said it had to be used in the right circumstances.
Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘If the lateness is wilful and persistent and the school decides there is no other way forward, then it is justified.
‘But they have to be careful because it can lead to the breakdown of the relationship between the school and parents.
‘There is also the question of whether social services should be involved to see what is going on at home. Schools shouldn’t act in isolation on this.’
Other local authorities are understood to be considering adopting the system to curb the tide of lateness and truancy.
Schools were originally able to impose a £50 penalty but this was increased to £60 in September 2012 as part of Education Secretary Michael Gove’s attempt to restore discipline to schools.
The increase came as record numbers of parents were given criminal records for allowing children to skip lessons. Some 10,185 parents were found guilty and sentenced in 2012 – a 3.5 per cent rise on the 9,836 the previous year. In 2001, just 1,845 people were convicted.
A spokesman for Milton Keynes Council said: ‘Our figures show that in the last academic year, two fixed penalty fines were issued in relation to persistent late attendance by pupils. In a majority of cases, a warning letter has proved to be enough to stop the issue.'

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