Truancy Services NZ (site name updated 02/2018)
Manaaki Nga Whanau Tamariki
Enfolding Families and Children
Are the TRUANTS in your district getting the attention they need?
write on the BLOG
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2017 - Each day last year more than 76,000 New Zealand students were absent from school, as truancy rates rose across the country. [check this out]
If my memory serves me well, when we operated the
DTS 's (District Truancy Service's). there was 35,000 a day absent from Education.
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The CTDTS was a successful Educational Provider working and networking with Students, Whanau, Police and the Community to help non-attending students re-engage in education so that they were NOT disadvantaged in their future.
The Central Taranaki District Truancy Service (and South Taranaki District Truancy Service) had a 98%+ success rate with those schools and organisations who 'bought into' their service.
The Ministry of Education, instructed by its political arm (Education Minister National Party) ordered a (new) Attendance Service to start in New Zealand in 2013.
This (new) Service was contracted out to the Public sector. (Non Government Organizations)
The ctdts in applying for a position decided to withdraw their application and collaborate with the YMCA as their 'Preferred Provider' to operate the Taranaki Region, as YMCA had "other" Services it could provide throughout the province.
This was not accepted by the Ministry of Education (NZ) (MoE) who accepted
Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki (TTWT) as their 'Preferred Provider'.
The reason given by the Ministry of Education was :
"the evaluation considered that your proposal failed to demonstrate your cultural capability for Maori and Pasifika."
In communication with the new provider (TTWT) they informed the manager of ctdts/stdts that they are NOT employing outside of their organisation.
This was of concern to the past manager as this (new) service has NO experience in this field.
The question from the District Truancy Services in NZ was Why fix something that was never broken?
All the Services (DTS) wanted was better funding.
The so called (new) model is similar to what the the ctdts/stdts and other DTS's have been Successfully using for some years.
The (then) Education Department "ordered" the DTS's to surrender their DTS Operation Manuals.
Most of these manuals were designed by the individual DTS's from the "RED BOOK".
Basically the Education Dept stole private information from the private operating Services of the time, to help develop their system under the New Attendance Service banner.
This was never going to be successful as privatizing Services, cuts out the Community involvement.
The ctdts operated under the Section 31 Education Act 1989 (s20) All NZ Citizens between the age of 6 and 16 years MUST attend a place of Education when it is open for education
Query
What Act are the (new) providers now acting under?
This site is dedicated to the past District Truancy Officers of New Zealand
He aha te mea nui o te ao, Maku e ki atu. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
What is the most important thing in the world. It is people, people, people.
write on the BLOG
________________________________
2017 - Each day last year more than 76,000 New Zealand students were absent from school, as truancy rates rose across the country. [check this out]
If my memory serves me well, when we operated the
DTS 's (District Truancy Service's). there was 35,000 a day absent from Education.
________________________________________
The CTDTS was a successful Educational Provider working and networking with Students, Whanau, Police and the Community to help non-attending students re-engage in education so that they were NOT disadvantaged in their future.
The Central Taranaki District Truancy Service (and South Taranaki District Truancy Service) had a 98%+ success rate with those schools and organisations who 'bought into' their service.
The Ministry of Education, instructed by its political arm (Education Minister National Party) ordered a (new) Attendance Service to start in New Zealand in 2013.
This (new) Service was contracted out to the Public sector. (Non Government Organizations)
The ctdts in applying for a position decided to withdraw their application and collaborate with the YMCA as their 'Preferred Provider' to operate the Taranaki Region, as YMCA had "other" Services it could provide throughout the province.
This was not accepted by the Ministry of Education (NZ) (MoE) who accepted
Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki (TTWT) as their 'Preferred Provider'.
The reason given by the Ministry of Education was :
"the evaluation considered that your proposal failed to demonstrate your cultural capability for Maori and Pasifika."
In communication with the new provider (TTWT) they informed the manager of ctdts/stdts that they are NOT employing outside of their organisation.
This was of concern to the past manager as this (new) service has NO experience in this field.
The question from the District Truancy Services in NZ was Why fix something that was never broken?
All the Services (DTS) wanted was better funding.
The so called (new) model is similar to what the the ctdts/stdts and other DTS's have been Successfully using for some years.
The (then) Education Department "ordered" the DTS's to surrender their DTS Operation Manuals.
Most of these manuals were designed by the individual DTS's from the "RED BOOK".
Basically the Education Dept stole private information from the private operating Services of the time, to help develop their system under the New Attendance Service banner.
This was never going to be successful as privatizing Services, cuts out the Community involvement.
The ctdts operated under the Section 31 Education Act 1989 (s20) All NZ Citizens between the age of 6 and 16 years MUST attend a place of Education when it is open for education
Query
What Act are the (new) providers now acting under?
This site is dedicated to the past District Truancy Officers of New Zealand
He aha te mea nui o te ao, Maku e ki atu. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
What is the most important thing in the world. It is people, people, people.
This may change your views on Education
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