In England alone, around 50,000 children play truant from school every day. The problem is so big the government pledged to cut truancy levels by a third in 3 years. As the deadline was looming, Bunking off investigated what was being done, following the stories of two girls at St George Community College in Bristol inner city, where on a typical morning as many as 100 children fail to turn up to school. Nicola hasn’t been to school much in the last year and the educational welfare officers are threatening court action. If Nicola doesn’t attend school, the new government legislation means her mother could soon go to prison.