The Dublin woman could be fined up to €1,000 and jailed for a month if found guilty of breaking the Education Act for not complying with an official warning to ensure her two children went to school.
The Child & Family Agency is prosecuting her, but she failed to attend her scheduled hearing before Judge Anthony Halpin at Dublin District Court today.The primary school principal was present, along with school attendance officers, to give evidence, and the woman had been given legal representation.
Judge Halpin noted the inconvenience it had caused the principal and that the case was important but declined a request to proceed with the hearing in the woman’s absence. Instead, he issued a bench warrant for her to be arrested and brought before the court, saying it would be more likely that she would engage then.
The minimum school leaving age is 16 years or the completion of three years of post-primary education.
How smart could she be
School bullying left unmanaged by a School warrants keeping a child at home for their own mental and physical safety. Seeking alternative home schooling in the interim is then the only remaining option when the school is ineffective until they can uphold duty of care to a child
Rightly so. The younger child is 5. Denying your children an education is child abuse and there are numerous interventions before it gets to court.
Why isn't the father of the child being held to account also, why is it just the mother?
Like mother like child. Not very punctual tut tut