UK NEWS: PARENTS OF SCHOOL GIRL SMOKERS ILLEGALLY FINED £50 BY SCHOOL
Via The Evening Standard A headteacher has unlawfully fined the parents of pupils caught smoking in their school playground. Margaret Peacock, head of Elliot School in Putney, wrongly claimed powers under the 2007 smoking ban to issue the £50 penalties. The school is now under investigation after Wandsworth local education authority admitted it acted outside its powers and demanded the school refund the fines, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind. Ms Peacock sent letters to the […]
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