Hundreds of parents have repeatedly taken their children out of school for unauthorised holidays, suggest figures obtained by KentOnline. As education chiefs prepare to clamp down on those who regularly allow their children to skip school without permission, senior reporter Lauren Abbott looks at the scale of the problem in one part of the county. Tougher rules introduced last month to tackle school absences have reignited the debate about whether parents should be able to take their children on family holidays in term time. Since September 2013, when the government put an end to the discretio…