The Government will redesign the Attendance Service and set "ambitious" school attendance targets to try and improve New Zealand's dire truancy rates. A new attendance strategy is being launched by Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti this afternoon at Manurewa Intermediate School in South Auckland. The strategy aims to see 70 per cent of school students at school regularly by 2024 and 75 per cent by 2026. School attendance has been steadily declining since 2015 and has been made worse by Covid. More than 40 per cent of school students are not attending school regularly - defined as at least nine days per fortnight.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 09, 2022 13:39 UTC