18 Dec 2018

Auckland principals appalled by attendance services

From Morning Report, 6:40 am on 18 December 2018

Auckland secondary school principals are appalled by the poor performance of attendance services that are supposed to bring the city's truants and non-enrolled children back to school. They say three of Auckland's four attendance services are not doing a good job. Richard Dykes from the Auckland Secondary Principals Association told our education correspondent, John Gerritsen, the Education Ministry's been told the system introduced in 2013 is not working.