Truant gets court lesson

what I have to say.”

The mum added that she recently gave up her job in order to take her daughter to school every day.

Mrs Ainley told the girl, who was permitted to sit in the public gallery with her grandma: “You’ve put your mum through the mill, resulting in her losing her job.

“You have to think about your future or you’re going to find yourself unemployable. Really think hard about what you’re doing – it’s deplorable.”

Magistrates made a parenting order meaning that the mum must comply with any guidance and courses offered to get over the next three months.

She will have to pay a £40 fine and £80 court costs.

Other parents from around the Kirklees area were found guilty in their absence of the same offence.

They included a Slaithwaite mum ordered to sign a parenting order after allowing her teenage daughter to skip classes between September last year and February this year.

A dad was fined £40 and told to pay £120 prosecution costs and £30 victim surcharge after his daughter missed lessons at primary school in Birstall. Magistrates heard that a Dewsbury couple took their two children out of school for a 19-day holiday without permission.

They were fined £550 and ordered to share costs totalling £172.

A Huddersfield woman who had asked for the case to be adjourned for a Hungarian interpreter must pay a total of £855.

And a Batley couple who allowed their child to attend only 224 of 327 school sessions will have to come back to court for a parenting order to be made.