School Absenteeism

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:43): Supplementary: how many of those attendance officers, better known as truancy officers, who do have the power under the act to undertake duties in relation to truancy, does the department currently employ?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:43): I will have to refamiliarise myself with those figures. I think it is 22, but I will confirm that is the case. It has certainly been a stable number for a reasonable period of time now, supplemented by the 60 wellbeing practitioners.