Greetings (Persons name removed) I have nothing to report at this stage as I am still waiting to see where it all goes. WE are supposed to know at the end of the month who the preferred provider is. I believe that the MoE have treated dedicated Truancy Officers in NZ who have helped young people for years to get back on track appallingly and though they say that: The MoE acknowledges that current DTS providers are the repositories of knowledge and expertise regarding supporting schools to return students to education in a timely manner with appropriate supports. What is showing is that they do NOT even believe this statement. It is also interesting to think that when I challenged the MoE about the Environmental Scan as being 'professional theft' they replied saying that they had a right under contract to our intellectual property. Then in the last email from them stating VERY CLEARLY that they are NOT our employer. They also have changed the name from Truancy Service or Truancy Officer to Attendance Advisor. We work under a Legal Act (Section 31 Education Act 1989) we are advising nothing. We apply the Law. BUT in doing so will involve many agencies to help if needed during the 'due process' (we use ROCKON) to bring a student/family back in line with the law. The use of SWISS,SW or Youth workers cannot work as a 'Truancy' deterrent, but we certainly use those services if we can....you can NOT have those services being the appliers of the Law..Its a conflict of interest (emotional) I challenged the MoE on this also..they ignored it. (probably because they have no understanding of where I was coming from) | I also challenged them on leaning toward using Maori/Pacifica centered organisation for this job as this contravenes the Human Rights Act...I wrote to them about this..they also ignored this. To top it all of I find in the Education Gazette the same model I have developed and have been using for the past 12 years. Even with the suggested National Data Base we have always wanted. (we as TO have worked together to perfect our craft over the years) I believe that the Authors/Architects of this so called (new) Attendance Service have NO idea what they are doing and that in the end this will be detrimental to our young people. Some caregivers will be most happy as less prosecutions will occur and over the years they will pull the wool over the eyes of inexperienced workers. (until they learn what we have. I could ramble on for hours and have many supportive stories from other agencies in NZ. They all say the same - Basically its the same old thing: Its NOT broken, why fix it? I guess in the end if we are re-employed into this (new) Attendance Service, we may be able to give some positive suggestions toward change. Regards (persons name removed) |
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