39263 (2024). Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan to the Associate Minister of Education

39263 (2024). Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan to the Associate Minister of Education: What reports, briefings, memos, aides-memoire, notes or written advice, if any, has he received regarding the second phase of initiatives to “lift school attendance”, listed by agency, title and date received?

Hon David Seymour: The written advice I received from the Ministry of Education following my announcement of the attendance action plan on 9 April 2024 is listed below 19 April Ministerial and departmental consultation for cabinet paper on mandatory daily provision of school attendance data 1 May - Strengthening parents’ accountability for enrolment and attendance 3 May - Update on the implementation of a public information and behaviour changes campaign focussed on increasing school attendance 30 May - Publishing provisional regular attendance results for Term 1 2024 7 June - Allocating the Regional Response Fund in FY 2024/25 21 June - Review of the legislative exemptions and exceptions to school attendance 25 June - Term 2 and ongoing Provisional release of provisional termly regular attendance data 26 June - Sequencing of Attendance Work Programme 27 June - Options for attendance management plans Please note some titles have been withheld as they are either sensitive in nature or still under active consideration. It is not in the public interest to release them at this time. This answer does not cover members of my office who receive a large amount of material every week. Asking them to collate that material would require substantial collation and research and prevent them from undertaking their substantive roles.