Sacramento City Unified School District: Truancy

Provides an overview of the consequences of missing school.
http://www.scusd.edu/child_welfare/truancy.htm

Channel 4: Truancy

Information about why young people might want to miss school and the consequences of truancy.
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/F/family/problems_pressures/truancy.html

BBC Leeds: Truancy

Includes a film in which Emma Coleman, a seventeen year old, tells her true story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/altogether/thomas_danby/truancy.shtml

Junior Jury: Truancy

An article in which teenagers from the North of England give their opinions on truancy.
http://www.childrens-express.org/dynamic/public/junior_jury_truancy_050702.htm

King County: Truancy Talk

Resources by the Prosecuting Attorney including information about legal issues and reasons to stay in school.
http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/truancy/

Bully OnLine: School Truancy

Considers truancy as an outcome of bullying at school. Includes links to statistics and excerpts from news reports.
http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/truancy.htm

Youth Information: Playing Truant

An article written for teenagers about the causes and effects of truancy. Includes information about the New Start initiative.
http://www.youthinformation.com/infopage.asp?snID=462

YoungMinds: Education

Discusses the problems that a teenager might face at school and suggests ways of facing these difficulties and avoiding truancy.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/education/y0.php