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Commencement
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Bills
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Parliamentary Committees
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Ministerial Statement
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Personal Explanation
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Question Time
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Parliamentary Committees
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Bills
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Personal Explanation
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Bills
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Ministerial Statement
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Answers to Questions
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Public Schools, Absenteeism
In reply to the Hon. S.L. GAME ().16 November 2022).
The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector): The Minister for Education, Training and Skills has advised:
Student Support Services currently employs over 30 FTE truancy social workers and senior social workers distributed across local education offices to provide truancy services. These roles are in addition to a range of mental health and wellbeing roles across our schools—which the Malinauskas Labor government is expanding.
Truancy is something this government has been doing a great deal of work to address, including hiring extra truancy officers with a social work background, introducing a pilot program working with Aboriginal students, and focusing on education family conferences.
I am pleased that the attendance rate rebounded following a drop to 87 per cent in 2020 as COVID first impacted, sitting at 88.9 per cent in 2021.