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Labour's truancy ploy backfires

10.34.03pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 11th Aug 2005

An attempt by the Leader of the Labour party on Lambeth Council to play politics with truancy in schools backfired on him when it turned out that Labour's record on truancy was much worse than the current situation.

According to Government statistics 0.5% of half days in Lambeth's secondary schools were missed due to unauthorised absence during 2003/04. This is below the national average of 1.14%, and is also the 9th lowest rate in the country and the lowest in Inner London.

The previous Labour administration presided over a 23% increase in unauthorised absences in Lambeth's secondary schools between 1999-2000 and 2001-02. Lib Dems have worked to reduce this at a rate faster than either the national average or any other inner London education authority.

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