Parents have lashed out at the authorities after they were fined almost £500 for repeatedly taking their children out of school to go on holiday. Paul Benson and wife Jessica took their children to Florida twice - and had two £240 fines as a result.
But the pair blasted the sanction as ‘unfair’ and said they were forced into doing it because it was so much cheaper in term time. They were given warnings before their last trip, in September, that it would have a detrimental effect on their children’s education.
Mr Benson told YorkshireLive: “My wife is a hospital theatre nurse who worked during the coronavirus crisis and they have a massive backlog of operations they are doing at the moment and it is difficult for us to get time off when we can all go together.”
