Mum fined for failing to prevent her daughter's truancy from Wigan school

A mum has been fined £440 for failing to send her child to her Wigan school regularly.
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Emma Anderson, of Barrowfield Road, Golborne, was found guilty following a trial at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court.

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The allegations had concerned her named daughter’s regular non-attendance at St Thomas’s Junior and Infant School during the autum term of 2021.

As well as the financial penalty, Anderson was ordered to pay £100 costs and £44 to fund victim services, bringing the total to £584.