The war with 'sick-note culture'
             The problem of truancy is common, and does not concern only Great Britain but many countries in the world. In the paper below I would try to tackle the problem of a specific kind of truancy. It consists in parents' agreement for their children absence at school.
             The "sick–note culture", as an allowance for truancy is called, is not a new problem. The government of Great Britain tried to deal with parents who authorise their children absence for a long time. I managed to find the earliest articles related to the subject, dated in February 2002. Since then there were taken many actions in order to deal with a problem. In April 2002 the Prime Minister Tony Blair considered plans to cut child benefit which was 10.75 for the first child and 10.55 for additional children of persistent truants. He also found shocking the results of a truancy sweep, which pointed at the fact that 80% of children were with a parent. In May the famous incident took place: an Oxfordshire mother was jailed for 60 days for allowing her two daughters to persistently truant from school. She finally was released after 28 days but was "determined" to make sure her children attend school. It was the first time the court have jailed a parent under powers gained in the November 2000 Education Act, when the maximum penalty for allowing a child to truant was raised from 1000 pounds to 2500 and/or three months in prison.
             At the end of 2003 the matter of authorised absence came back on the first pages of newspapers because of the proposal to penalise parents who take their family on holiday in term time. They may face fines up to 100 pounds under the Governments truancy rules. Junior education minister Ivan Levis declared that taking term–time holidays without permission is truancy. However, he admits that heads could give permission for children to be absent for up to 10 days of a
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