0 present participle of truant --
1 Children who truant are regularly absent from school, usually while pretending to their parents that they have gone to school: --
They were truanting and on the verge of permanent exclusion, which would, inevitably, have been followed by involvement in crime.
The concerns are that increasing the fines for parents of truanting children and, more particularly, jailing them will be counterproductive.
Offending often begins while children are truanting from school.
The important matter is to find a way of getting truanting children back in school.
We also make care orders for truanting from school.
That will lead to his rejecting education, truanting, exclusion and all that flows from that.
That can again lead to withdrawal, truanting and exclusion.
Unquestionably, if a child is truanting—especially if he or she is then permanently excluded from school—there is a very high risk of that child offending.
