A MUM has been fined and another given a conditional discharge for failing to ensure their children were in school.

Both were sentenced at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court last Tuesday for being a parent of a child of compulsory school age registered at a school who failed to attend regularly.

Neither parent can be named for legal reasons to protect the identity of their children.

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One of the mothers, who is from the east of Bradford, failed to ensure her daughter was attending primary school regularly for more than three months, between February and May this year.

She was ordered to pay £364 in total, including a £180 fine, a surcharge of £34 to fund victim services and £150 in costs.

The other mother, who is from the west of Bradford, failed to ensure her girl was attending primary school regularly over an eight-day period in November last year.

She received a conditional discharge which will last six months.

This means if she commits an offence in that time further action will be taken.

The mum was also ordered to pay £172 in total, including a £22 surcharge to fund victim services and £150 in costs.

Bradford Council recently launched a new campaign to improve attendance rates in Bradford’s schools – timed to coincide with the start of the new school year.