school attendance officer

noun

1. a former name for Educational Welfare Officer

Example Sentences

Her five children got sick so often that a school attendance officer came to visit.

From New York Times

There are the school attendance officer and the sanitary inspector.

From Project Gutenberg

No inspector of nuisances pays them a visit; the tax-gatherer knows not their whereabouts; the rate-collector troubles them not with any ‘demand note;’ their children are not provided with proper and necessary education, yet no school attendance officer serves them with a summons. 

From Project Gutenberg

Corkey is the School Attendance Officer and a terror to every boy in the neighbourhood.

From Project Gutenberg

As he threw up the sash Elder Penno caught sight of Tom Hancock, the school attendance officer, lounging against a post on the quay below.

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