Walsall Council offers to meet parents of nine who claim they were 'threatened with jail' over youngsters' sick days
Council bosses have said that they are willing to meet with the family who claimed they were threatened with prison if they did not send their children to school.
Tracy Foster, 44, and husband Paul, 47, from Great Barr, who have nine children, claim they were told to'drag' their children into class by Walsall Council.
The Fosters were summoned to an education attendance panel hearing by Walsall Council in June after two of their children, Faith, 15, and Lenny, 12, each missed 15 days off school last year because of illness.
As well as Faith and Lenny the couple have Freddy, two, William, three, Stanley, six, April, seven, Eily, 10, Grace, 16, and 18-year-old Stephen.
They were told the absences meant they were failing in their legal duty to ensure their children regularly attended Barr Beacon School in Aldridge.
Councillor Chris Towe, Walsall Council's portfolio holder for learning, said: "We want to work in partnership with the family to sort this out. We have offered to meet with them during the summer holidays. We will support any parent who has an ill child.
