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• - Discusses the problems that a teenager might face at school and suggests ways of facing these difficulties and avoiding truancy.
  
• - An article in which teenagers from the North of England give their opinions on truancy.
  
• - Resources by the Prosecuting Attorney including information about legal issues and reasons to stay in school.
  
• - Considers truancy as an outcome of bullying at school. Includes links to statistics and excerpts from news reports.
  
• - Provides an overview of the consequences of missing school.
  
• - An article written for teenagers about the causes and effects of truancy. Includes information about the New Start initiative.
  
• - Information about why young people might want to miss school and the consequences of truancy.
  
• - Includes a film in which Emma Coleman, a seventeen year old, tells her true story.