I could be thrown in jail for taking my kids on holiday, it’s an absolute nightmare it could happen to anyone

AN aggravated parent has posted online aft receiving a missive informing her that she has been "charged with an offence" for her household holiday.

Whitney Ainscough  said she is "fuming" and that she whitethorn beryllium facing prison clip for taking her children distant during term.

Posting from her TikTok relationship @itsmebadmom, Whitney said she had received the letter telling her: "You person been charged with an offence contrary to conception 444 of the Education Act 1996."

Whitney went connected to explicate that past twelvemonth she had taken her girl Cora connected 2 holidays - some during word time.

The archetypal of the holidays had landed Whitney a £60 fine, which she said she had paid.

The "single justness procedures notice" missive she received acrophobic her 2nd holiday, and this clip determination was nary enactment for her to wage a fixed punishment fine.

She work on: "The suspect was not offered the accidental to discharge liability to prosecution for the supra offence by paying a fixed penalty.

"This is due to the fact that a fixed punishment was issued for a erstwhile unauthorised absence."

Instead, the announcement told her she faced a complaint for "failing to unafraid the regular attendance astatine school" of her girl Cora.

She had 21 days to plead blameworthy oregon not blameworthy to the complaint and needed to proviso a connection of means form (which gives the court much accusation connected whether oregon not idiosyncratic has the finances to wage the fine).

If Whitney did not reply successful time, she was told the lawsuit whitethorn beryllium heard without her - meaning she could beryllium recovered blameworthy and sentenced successful her absence.

Whitney claims the holidays were "educational" and "family time".

She explained she preferred to instrumentality her children distant connected vacation during word clip due to the fact that her lad has further needs and "can't cope" erstwhile it is busy.

She added her son's schoolhouse was usually knowing of her circumstance.

"Flabbergasted" Whitney told viewers: "Our rights arsenic parents are being taken away."

She aboriginal posted different video, wherever she looked visibly distressed, and captioned it: "I took my kids connected vacation for 1 week past year.

"Now I'm facing jailhouse time."

Viewers were divided successful the comments.

One idiosyncratic wrote: "I would conscionable wholly propulsion my kids retired the schoolhouse strategy if they threatened maine with jailhouse for a week holiday."

And idiosyncratic other added: "This makes maine truthful angry! My lad has ADHD and suffers intelligence health truthful we NEED a interruption sometimes, the schoolhouse vacation prices are conscionable excessively much."

While different radical disagreed, with 1 pointing retired that this was the 2nd vacation Whitney had taken her children connected during term, writing: "Didn't you spell twice?"

And different wrote: "Unfortunately it's a hazard you took. Was it truly worthy it?"

While idiosyncratic other bluntly commented: "Stop moaning."