- BBC Leeds: Truancy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/altogether/thomas_danby/truancy.shtml
Includes a film in which Emma Coleman, a seventeen year old, tells her true story.
- Junior Jury: Truancy - http://www.childrens-express.org/dynamic/public/junior_jury_truancy_050702.htm
An article in which teenagers from the North of England give their opinions on truancy.
- King County: Truancy Talk - http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/truancy/
Resources by the Prosecuting Attorney including information about legal issues and reasons to stay in school.
- Bully OnLine: School Truancy - http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/truancy.htm
Considers truancy as an outcome of bullying at school. Includes links to statistics and excerpts from news reports.
- Youth Information: Playing Truant - http://www.youthinformation.com/infopage.asp?snID=462
An article written for teenagers about the causes and effects of truancy. Includes information about the New Start initiative.
- YoungMinds: Education - http://www.youngminds.org.uk/education/y0.php
Discusses the problems that a teenager might face at school and suggests ways of facing these difficulties and avoiding truancy.
- Channel 4: Truancy - http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/F/family/problems_pressures/truancy.html
Information about why young people might want to miss school and the consequences of truancy.
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