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Prevent and control truancy among children under 15 years of age is the aim pursued Murcia City Council through the signing of an agreement with the Ministry of Education, Science and Research.

The Governing Board of the City Council has given the green light this morning the signing of that agreement.

Truancy is a phenomenon that continues to produce and detect in the schools, although the causes that generate it are not always the same, it is also true that the unfavorable conditions of a family nature, economic and sociocultural are frequent.

Thus, to eradicate it and allow the return of these students to the standard system will be put in place a classroom occupational attached to a local school, to intervene and truancy of pupils enrolled in secondary education.

It should be noted that the City of Murcia has spent several years working through Social Services, the problem of truancy in coordination with schools in the municipality.

Under that agreement, the Ministry of Education, Science and Research will provide the staff necessary for the development of occupational class, will facilitate both the monitoring of student absenteeism, the coordination of schools and educational services with the municipal social services , and establish monitoring mechanisms on the age of compulsory school population in response to the families and coordination with the competent municipal services.

For its part, the City of Murcia will start development projects and complementary actions in the field of foreign educational compensation, that is intended to ensure the enrichment of educational opportunities and equal opportunities in education.

Also provide adequate infrastructure and provision of classrooms and workshops for the development of occupational class and the overall budget for its operation.

In addition will provide for a municipal to coordinate the program and make minor traces of occupational class and make those resources available to the classroom to encourage the proper development of it.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia