Terminally ill boy given truancy warning

A SHEPSHED school has apologised for sending a letter about truancy to the mother of a boy suffering from leukaemia after she asked to take him out of classes to meet the Pope. Louise Yates, of Cumbrian Way, wants to take her six-year-old son Travis on a two-day trip to the Vatican in June for a blessing with the Pope. But when she asked for permission from St Botolph’s School she was sent a letter about truancy and a copy of his attendance record.
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