PARENTS keeping their children away from a swine flu-hit Hampshire school are risking fines for truancy, the Daily Echo can reveal.
Council chiefs say there must be a “justified reason” for keeping youngsters out of lessons, after a pupil became the first at a school in the county to be diagnosed with the disease.
All Year 6 pupils at Tanners Brook Junior School in Southampton have been issued with anti-viral drug Tamiflu – some in treatment doses because they were showing flu-like symptoms.
The child with swine flu was last week on a five-day residential trip to Devon with the school, and it is believed another pupil is awaiting test results after also displaying symptoms.
While parents were at the school yesterday morning, another four youngsters were put in face masks and taken for examination after displaying flu-like symptoms.
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