I’m a bad mum & facing a criminal record for taking my kids out of school for cheap hols, we’re off to Euro Disney next

A MUM has decided to instrumentality her children connected vacation during word clip again contempt being warned of a transgression record.

Self-professed atrocious mum Whitney Ainscough jetted disconnected connected 2 family holidays during schoolhouse clip past twelvemonth with her spouse and 3 children, Cora Bentley, 12, Addison Squires, seven, and Adley Christopher, three.

Now Whitney is readying to instrumentality them to Euro Disney during word clip arsenic she claims it's 'educational.'

The household splashed retired £5,000 connected a travel to Cyprus successful June 2024 and £8,000 for their Zante vacation successful July 2024 and her kids missed 5 days of schoolhouse for each trip.

The societal media influencer known arsenic @itsmebadmom connected TikTok was 'fuming' erstwhile she received a £60 good successful the station connected 26th July 2024 for her June vacation from her eldest's school.

The 31-year-old says she paid the good for her archetypal vacation but connected 17 January opened a missive that she assumed was a 2nd fine, lone to find she mightiness beryllium facing a transgression grounds for taking her children retired of school.

The shocked mum-of-three took to societal media and shared the news of the missive with her 440,000 TikTok followers.

In the clip, Whitney work the letterand said she was 'flabbergasted' that she received a azygous justness process announcement outlining she is being charged nether Section 444 (1) of the Education Act 1996.

Section 444 (1) of the Education Act 1996 states that if a kid of compulsory schoolhouse property who is simply a registered pupil astatine a schoolhouse fails to be regularly astatine school, his genitor is blameworthy of an offence.

A idiosyncratic charged with the offence has to beryllium they had a 'reasonable justification' for their child's nonaccomplishment to be regularly astatine the school.

However Whitney remains defiant successful the look of the threats, claiming she does not privation to permission them astatine location and truthful they volition schoolhouse again to spell to Paris this week.

Whitney, from Rotherham successful South Yorkshire, said: "I was virtually conscionable astir to instrumentality my kids to schoolhouse and I'd rapidly opened it.

"Obviously I couldn't work it decently due to the fact that I had to instrumentality the kids to schoolhouse truthful I enactment it down a minute, I lone scanned done it and I was similar what the f***.

"I took my kids to school, came backmost and work the letter. The archetypal happening I did consecutive distant was marque a video. I was like, I'm fuming, what connected earth?

"I was expecting that I whitethorn get different good but I'd not heard thing and it had been months. I was perfectly furious, fuming.

"To beryllium honorable with you, it would perfectly marque maine laugh. How could you adjacent endanger idiosyncratic with jailhouse for taking their kids connected holiday.

"I conscionable can't recognize the logic of it. These are my children, they are not the government's children."What bash you privation maine to do? Leave my kids astatine location portion I spell disconnected connected fancy holidays with my partner? No. I'm definite societal services would beryllium getting progressive astatine that point.

"I instrumentality my kids connected a nice vacation to spot the satellite and you get penalised for it. It's perfectly disgusting.

"Whenever we bash spell [on holiday] I would accidental they're each educational. When we went successful July to Zante, we booked a backstage vessel and we went to spell and spot a shipwreck, we went to Turtle Island.

"I privation them to spot much of the satellite and yes schoolhouse is acquisition and immoderate other and they request education. But they besides request to spot much of the world.

"It f***ing frustrates me.

"She said she has returned the missive to the assembly explaining her reasons for taking Cora retired of school.

Whitney besides says she takes her children retired of schoolhouse during word clip due to the fact that 1 of her sons has further needs and struggles to header successful engaged environments.

Although she said she has ne'er taken her children connected vacation during word clip earlier these trips, she is taking them retired again to spell to Paris this weekend.

Whitney said: "My next measurement is, I've sent the missive back, saying I americium blameworthy of taking Cora retired of schoolhouse which I'm not going to deny.

"I'm not going to lie, I person the money to spell connected vacation whenever I want. I could spell successful the six-week holidays.

"It's thing to bash with the money, it's to bash with however engaged things are. I person a kid with ADHD and different things. He does person further needs.

"He struggles a batch successful majorly engaged times. So the six-week holidays and worldly similar that, it is mode excessively busy. That is the reasoning arsenic to wherefore I instrumentality them erstwhile I instrumentality them.

"It's not due to the fact that I deliberation I'm amended and I don't request to nonstop my kids to school.

"It's not to bash with that, it's much to bash with however my different kid is going to header portion we are determination and making it easier for us.

"Surely they should recognize my reasons for taking them retired astatine that time.

"I americium really taking my kids retired again. I'm taking them to Paris this weekend.

"It's my partner's day astatine the weekend, I privation my kids to travel with us. I privation them to beryllium portion of my life. They are my crushed for my life. I privation my kids to come.

"I had the enactment to permission them astatine location with household but I don't privation to. I privation to instrumentality my kids to spot Paris. You know, Disneyland, the Eiffel Tower."

Whitney besides said she believes she is being 'targeted' due to the fact that of her online presence.

Whitney said: "I consciousness similar due to the fact that I'm connected societal media and immoderate else, I consciousness similar they're trying to marque a spot of an illustration retired of maine arsenic well. I consciousness similar I americium being targeted.

"They astir apt look to consciousness that I don't attraction and evidently I bash care. I privation my kids to execute and bash amended than I ever did.

"But my kids are not missing retired connected experiences successful beingness conscionable due to the fact that they're going to miss a fewer days astatine school. They'll drawback up.

"I'd recognize if my kids weren't clever. My kids are clever, they're precise clever.

"They bash their work, they get connected with it, they're not naughty kids.

"It would beryllium perfectly ridiculous. Obviously I would instrumentality to societal media. If they were to effort and jailhouse maine implicit taking my kids connected holiday, it would beryllium a large woody connected societal media.

"I'm not disquieted due to the fact that I deliberation it would beryllium perfectly ridiculous and if that was the lawsuit I would propulsion each 3 children retired of acquisition and support them astatine home."

Rotherham Council has been contacted for remark by Kennedy News.