Truancy is when children stay away from school without permission.
Schools need to reduce levels of truancy.
Synonyms: absence, shirking, skiving [British, slang], malingering More Synonyms of truancy
truancy in American English
(ˈtruənsi)
noun
1. Word forms: pluralˈtruancies
the act or an instance of playing truant
2.
the state of being truant
Examples of 'truancy' in a sentence
truancy
We are storing up problems with truancy and disruptive behaviour.
The Sun (2009)
To tackle truancy effectively conventional education must be complemented with more informal learning methods.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A properly designed school can enhance education and behaviour, and reduce truancy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That's also why you've messed up your last year at school with truancy and drink and drugs.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These countries do not appear to suffer truancy or antisocial behaviour on anything like the scale that is seen in the UK.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The government will pay local councils 4,000 a family if they reduce truancy, youth crime and antisocial behaviour or put parents back to work.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other measures, he calls for schools to use new technology to tackle truancy - by sending texts or emails to alert parents of absent pupils.
The Sun (2008)
All related terms of 'truancy'
truancy officer
(in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling
Educational Welfare Officer
(in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling
Education Welfare Officer
(in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling
EWO
Educational Welfare Officer
school attendance officer
(in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling
school welfare officer
(in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling