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Manchester Council is considering measures which could see parents evicted for failing to stop their children truanting.

The council's housing and education departments are discussing a plan to make school attendance a condition of council house tenancy.

Children's charity Barnardo's believes any such plans are "wholly inappropriate". Principal policy officer Nancy Kelley said: "Children play truant for all kinds of reasons and this has to be addressed as a support need for the child and family and not as a punishment.


"Making a family homeless is going to damage relations and it's not going to improve school attendance. It seems like a misconceived idea to me."

A Manchester Council spokesperson said if the plans went ahead there would probably be several interventions before any action was taken against families or parents.