Parents '˜more likely' to face holiday fines
THE Yorkshire Post revealed last month that Ministers will be invited to this summer's Great Yorkshire Show to witness first-hand its educational merits, in a move prompted by concerns that schoolchildren will be denied opportunities to visit the event.
Show director Charles Mills said the Yorkshire Agricultural Society will be writing to the Department for Education to invite representatives to attend, claiming it is an “educational event” and children should not be penalised for attending.
Last month, a Supreme Court ruling upheld the ban on parents taking children out of school for family holidays in term-time.