§ 7. Viscount Cranborneasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will introduce measures to reduce the level of truancy in schools; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir Keith JosephLocal action to reduce truancy rates is important. Local authority education welfare services have a vital contribution to make, and I am looking at ways of encouraging those services to focus more sharply on the issue.
§ 30. Dr. Mawhinneyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to require schools to publish annually their truancy figures.