In a series of special reports, our Social Affairs Correspondent, Christine Alsford, spent time at a Redbridge Community School in Southampton.
The school has dramatically improved its truancy rates, reduced permanent exclusions and turned lives around.
Last year Peter had a school attendance record of just over 60 per cent. This year he's been in lessons every single day. He tells Christine Alsford why he stopped playing truant - and how he's turned his life around since a minibus that tours the locality chasing up absent pupils came to call.
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A vigil has been held to remember the three victims of the terror attack in Reading.