{"id":160,"date":"2016-05-17T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediahouse.design-files.co.uk\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:01:54","slug":"media-house-win-for-parents-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/media-house-win-for-parents-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Media House win for parents in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, May 13, the High Court in London ruled that Jon Platt, the father who had been taken to court after refusing to pay a fine for taking his daughter out of school during term time, had no case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which follows three years of successful lobbying by Media House International, has been warmly welcomed by Parents Want a Say \u2013 the campaign group calling on government to reverse the amendments made to term-time holiday rules in England.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the High Court is a watershed for the campaign and hopefully marks the beginning of further success for unjustly prosecuted parents<\/p>\n<p>Media House works closely with Parents Want a Say, advising the campaign on its overall communications strategy and public consultation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of a number of high-profile lobbying campaigns led by Media House. Other notable campaigns include <a href=\"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/uk-transport-policy-direction-needed-in-uncertain-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Speed UK<\/a>, the viable alternative to HS2, and Cut Tourism VAT, the widely supported initiative to make the UK tourist industry internationally competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, May 13, the High Court in London ruled that Jon Platt, the father who had been taken to court after refusing to pay a fine for taking his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}