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Anything is better than nothing: a lukewarm response to the number of new truancy officers

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Publish Date
Tue, 21 Feb 2023, 7:18am
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Anything is better than nothing: a lukewarm response to the number of new truancy officers

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 21 Feb 2023, 7:18am

A lukewarm response to the Government's crackdown on truancy.

82 new attendance officer roles are being created to help address dwindling school attendance in a 74-million dollar package.

Their job will be to work with students with high absenteeism, and around three-thousand kids are expected to benefit.

Secondary Principals' Association President, Vaughan Couillault told Kate Hawkesby that anything is better than nothing, but with two thousand-seven-hundred schools, the numbers aren't huge.

He says he acknowledges the financial times we're in, and even two officers are better than none.

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