On a typical school day, 327,000 pupils were out of school, compared with 370,000 the year before. Photograph: VIEW Pictures Ltd / Alamy/Alamy
<P>The number of fines imposed upon parents for allowing their children to miss school has leapt by a third in a year as part of a crackdown on truancy, statistics reveal.</P>
<P>Figures released by the Department for Education show schools and councils in England handed out 41,224 £60 fines in 2011-12, compared with 32,641
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