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school attendance officer

noun

  1. a former name for Educational Welfare Officer

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Her five children got sick so often that a school attendance officer came to visit.

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There are the school attendance officer and the sanitary inspector.

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No inspector of nuisances pays them a visit; the tax-gatherer knows not their whereabouts; the rate-collector troubles them not with any ‘demand note;’ their children are not provided with proper and necessary education, yet no school attendance officer serves them with a summons. 

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Corkey is the School Attendance Officer and a terror to every boy in the neighbourhood.

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As he threw up the sash Elder Penno caught sight of Tom Hancock, the school attendance officer, lounging against a post on the quay below.

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