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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Antony Thrower & Emma Gill

Parents dismiss school's threat to fine £5 for picking up kids late as 'cheap childcare'

Nonplussed parents have scoffed at a school’s threat to fine them if they are late picking up their children and declared it “cheap childcare”.

Woodbank Primary School, in Bury, Greater Manchester, sent out in its newsletter telling mums and dads running late would be fined £5 every half an hour.

Far from being seen as a financial burden, parents responded to the news by calling the money “good value”.

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