Parent Sally Hope took her autistic twins away during term time for holiday, only to come back to a fine from one of her children's schools.
Both Sally’s children have autism Scanning the letters my twin boys had brought home from their respective schools earlier this year, my eyes widened in shock. One detailed a week-long ski trip to Italy, costing £1,600 – the other was for a Classics trip to Greece for a few days, costing £1,200. Each of these trips represented the cost of a family holiday – there was no way I could afford one, let alone both.
Sally then received a fine for £120 for an unauthorised absence from the local authority It’s long been known that school holiday fines are a postcode lottery. Statistics from the Department for Education show that more than half of all fines are issued by only 28 out of 152 local authorities. But, my twins share a postcode. Their schools are within 10 minutes of each other and under the same local authority.
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