There has been a fall in English GCSE grades with 61.7 per cent of young people getting a grade C or above, a fall of 1.9 percentage points on last year. However, the BBC reports that, overall, there was a slight rise in A* to C grades across all subjects. A total of 68.8 per cent of entries scored A* to C, up 0.7 percentage points on 2013.
The number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school has risen by almost 500 per cent in the space of five years. The East Anglian Daily Times reports that there were 303 fines for unauthorised absences handed out to parents between September 2013 and July 2014, compared with just 61 in 2009/10.
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