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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Truancy solution: back to the future and back to school
Description: This week the Government is going to announce that it’s getting tough on kids not turning up to school. And for all the talk about truancy being a “complex issue” —which, to be fair, it is— the Government is going to try and tackle it with a bit of the good old fashioned enforcement. Which will mean the return of state truancy officers. We haven’t had government or state truancy officers for more than 10 years in New Zealand. Schools themselves have truancy officers but this is, generally, someone who has keeping tabs on school atten...