Herald Express 21 September 2007The spoils of Paignton Community and Sport College's new £50,000 electronic registration system and measures to combat truancy were shown off to a VIP audience yesterday - and the greatest fans are the children.
Pupils met with shadow minister for the cabinet office Francis Maude and Torbay Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate Marcus Wood to see how the school is tackling truancy.Torbay has one of the worst rates for unauthorised absences in the South West and last year the college's attendance was at 88 per cent, six per cent below Government targets.
But the new system, together with a range of measures including incentives such as tickets to Wimbledon, Twickenham and David Beckham's Football Academy seem to have started to turn things around.
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