Mum's horror as daughter aged 4 'goes missing' on her first day of school

Horrified: Jo Simmons arrived to collect daughter Isabelle Noakes to find she had disappeared

A panicked mother went to collect her daughter after her first day at school and found out she had disappeared.

Jo Simmons launched a frantic search for her daughter Isabelle Noakes after teachers said they didn't know where she was.

Eventually the four-year-old was found by high school students nearby in Leigh Park, Hampshire.

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Ms Simmons, 35, who is pregnant with her fifth child, is now refusing to send her daughter back to Front Lawn Primary School for the fear that she will go missing again.

Found: Isabelle was found in the grounds of the nearby secondary school

She told the Portsmouth News : "I was devastated by the fact that she wasn’t there. It’s her first year at school and such a big incident like this happens.

"If something was to happen again then I would feel guilty about sending her back," she said. "I have applied to other schools."

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Statement: Front Lawn Primary Academy said each child's safety was a priority

The school said it could not comment on individual cases but said it had a strict policy on ensuring the safety of students and would do its best to ensure a similar incident did not happen again.