Search Results for 'National Educational Welfare Board'
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Judge gives truancy-tolerant parents until after the Easter holidays to show improvements
The Department of Education continues its policy of combating truancy by prosecuting parents, and this week (March 20) the District Court saw the parents of five children brought before Judge Seamus Hughes to face such summonses.
Judge condemns parents for not sending children to school
“Let the message go out, I’ll keep a tight rein on you,” was Judge Seamus Hughes’ message to members of the Traveller community in Mullingar who fail to send their children to school.
Absent schoolchild gives rise to concern
A Westmeath student is causing serious concern to the National Educational Welfare Board, Mullingar District Court has heard.
20 per cent of students absent for a month
Westmeath has the third highest 2nd level school absentee rate in the country behind Leitrim and Cavan, according to figures released earlier this year from the school attendance body, the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) but highlighted by the teachers' union, the INTO, at conference this week.
