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Don't miss: Truants - BBC One, 18 November, 8:00-8:30pm

The first programme features Karen Brooks, a full-time mother of eight who faces a daily battle getting her children to school, and Patricia Amos, who became the first parent in Britain to be jailed after her two daughters skipped school. Her daughter Jackie, now 14, has been truanting again for the past six months but Patricia claims she has done everything she can.

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