Could docking child benefits cut truancy?

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Child benefit should be docked if parents fail to pay fines for persistent truancy by their children, a government adviser has suggested.

Behaviour tsar Charlie Taylor was asked to look at the issue of school attendance in the wake of the English riots last September.

Reeta Chakrabarti reports.

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