Daily roundup 6 April: Term-time holidays, child neglect, and vaccinations

The Supreme Court has ruled that parents cannot legally take children out of school during term time without their head teacher's permission after a landmark legal battle between education chiefs and a father who took his daughter on holiday. The Telegraph reports that judges ruled that Jon Platt, a businessman from the Isle of Wight who took his six-year-old daughter on a seven-day family trip to Disney World in Florida in April 2015 should have paid a £120 fine for his daughter's unauthorised absence.


A woman has been locked up after she left three children to play bare-footed among broken bottles as she slept. The Manchester Evening News reports that Carly Aldred, 29, slept as the youngsters were downstairs in a house with broken window panes and just a carton of dry cereal and some peas to eat, Manchester magistrates heard. Aldred blamed medication she was taking for making her "drowsy", but she was handed a 16-week prison sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of neglect.


Two young boys are to receive routine vaccinations after the High Court overruled the objections of their vegan mother. The Daily Mail reports that the mother is so opposed to everyday medicines that she refuses to give her sons Calpol liquid paracetamol, but was ordered by a judge to allow the injections to go ahead.


Missing children whose cases are posted on social media face "personal embarrassment" long after they are found with the negative publicity impacting on their job prospects, a Scottish academic has claimed. The Herald reports that a report co-authored by an Abertay University academic calls for better protection of former missing children and their families from the negative impact of publicity appeals.


Hundreds of children a year are treated for the effects of second-hand smoke in South Tyneside, a report has revealed. The Shields Gazette reports that experts have found that 378 youngsters were taken to their GPs, or hospital, with conditions including glue ear and asthma, after breathing in the toxic fumes.