|
An operation to catch truants on the Tyne and Wear Metro caught 92 children out of class without a good reason, highlighting Nexus’s continuing good work in schools across Tyneside and Wearside. Education welfare officers carried out the spot checks at stations in Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland in co-operation with the Northumbria Police Metro Unit and Nexus staff. All of the children who were stopped had their names taken and the information was passed on to their respective schools to make sure they had a valid reason for being absent from school. Many of the children who were stopped were with parents or guardians but still did not have a valid reason for being out of school. The truancy crackdown on Metro is run twice a year, with the 60 children caught bunking off school back in March and 102 in December of last year. Metro Director, Mick Carbro, said: “We stage these operations to help education welfare services deal with the problem of truancy and we do a lot of work in schools to encourage children not to truant and not to hang around Metro. “We are more than happy to work with the education welfare services and Northumbria Police to crackdown on truants on the Metro system.” The truancy sweep took place on Thursday, November 30, with station checks at Monument in Newcastle and on-train checks in Gateshead and in Sunderland city centre.
|
