Education and Skills Bill
12:00 pm
Mick Brookes: I agree with John—he is absolutely right. I will say again: we have five years to get this right. I think human nature is such that we will probably never see the end of people taking the occasional day off, as people do in the workplace. We cannot be so idealistic as to make an impossible target for ourselves. Certainly, as John says, driving the percentage of truants down is what we need to do.