The Isle of Wight Council has been given permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against a High Court ruling against them and in favour of a father who they had fined for taking his daughter out of school for a family ski holiday during term time.
The High Court had refused the council the right to appeal to them, and the Supreme Court will still have to decide whether it will hear the case.
The government has said it will consider making changes to the law to make sure that parents are fined for taking their children on ski trips and other holidays during term time. The council lost at the High Court on a point of law because the fines regime brought in in 2013 by then education secretary Michael Gove was a variation of an existing law, rather than a clear new law in its own right.
