March 24, 2005
Parents get school truancy texts
BBC News writes that parents of children who are absent from Scottish schools may soon be alerted by text messages to their mobile phones.
A computer system will send texts to mobiles or voice messages to ordinary phones of parents whose children have not turned up to class by morning registration.
The system, which will be similar to systems in place in other parts of the UK, will cost each school £1,000 a year to run and the executive will meet the £6,000 installation cost.
Headteacher Muriel Buchanan, from Drummond School in Edinburgh, said the system had proved a success. "It's having an impact because it's catching people quickly," she said.
"All absences are keyed in the morning and the system phones home on a repeated basis until the parent responds and then the system switches off.
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