More children are not going to school because they have health or other issues, or because of their parents’ (religious) principles, putting their rights under pressure, children’s ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer has said in a letter to education minister Mariëlle Paul. Local council figures show some 7,389 children with a physical or mental impairment do not currently go to school compared to 5,077 children in 2014. That year a law obliging schools to provide fitting education to all children was... Read this story
