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Speaker 1: David Semol's school attendance crack down continues. So he's scrapped

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Speaker 1: the old contracts that they were operating under and set

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Speaker 1: tougher attendance targets. One hundred and twenty three million dollars

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Speaker 1: extra over four years, eighty three new deals, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy schools that get extra help for chronic absentees.

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Speaker 1: Three percent of funding will go to basics like uniforms, devices,

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Speaker 1: transport for kids who can't afford them. Kathy Charmers is

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Speaker 1: Green Meadows Intermediate principle lead principle of the Money Attendance

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Speaker 1: Service with me now, Kathy, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So what's happened with your contract under this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we've won a contract for al Alphaston Tucknamy catchment,

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Speaker 2: so we only applied for that part of Manuoa. So

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Speaker 2: and that's the area that we'll be served. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a good contract.

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Speaker 1: These the way that he's designed it, doing things like

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Speaker 1: instead of getting money based on how many students you've got,

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Speaker 1: but based on how many students you've got absent are

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Speaker 1: these smart things will make a difference.

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Speaker 2: I believe they will. I think that's a much fairer

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Speaker 2: way of distributing the resourcing. Our number of attendant services

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Speaker 2: that we will be able to get in our area

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Speaker 2: has doubled. Having said that, we also have taken on

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Speaker 2: the non enrolled contract as well, so that you know

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Speaker 2: the number of cases will get will be increasing as

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Speaker 2: well and be a little bit more complex.

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Speaker 1: We know that by twenty thirty the goal is eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of students attending school more than ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: the time. What's your area at the moment, what are

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Speaker 1: where are you at and do you think you can

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Speaker 1: get there?

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Speaker 2: My school at the moment floats around sixty percent. I'd

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Speaker 2: like to think that we could get there, but it's

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Speaker 2: a pretty it's a pretty aspirational target to reach. Two aspects.

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Speaker 2: For that four days off in the winter turn when

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Speaker 2: it's you know, there's a lot of illness going around

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Speaker 2: in our area. That's a tricky one to meet the

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Speaker 2: ninety percent target. But also the chronic absences in our

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Speaker 2: area are usually at the root of them are really

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Speaker 2: really complex situations, and that's going to be honest. I

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Speaker 2: think that also needs wrap around from other services, not

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Speaker 2: just the attendance of this to make that target.

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Speaker 1: Because those I didn't realize this. Three percent of a

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Speaker 1: school's allocation can be spent on stuff like uniforms or transport.

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Speaker 1: You know, if there are if there are economic reasons

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Speaker 1: of kids not attending school, we can actually fix that.

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Speaker 2: You can fix it short term, but you're not going

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Speaker 2: to be able to continue that funding long term. So

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Speaker 2: that would be where you would have Kevin other avenue

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Speaker 2: or hope that the parents would you know, it's a

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Speaker 2: kick start. I mean, certainly, I think that's a really

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Speaker 2: excellent part of the contract that we've got the flexibility

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Speaker 2: to do that. But there will be you know, there's

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Speaker 2: downsides to that as well, because what happens once that

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Speaker 2: funding for that child stops. We can't continue to pay

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Speaker 2: that parents for the rest of these full time So

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Speaker 2: one hopes that they get back to school and back

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Speaker 2: into a pattern of attendance is what the hope is.

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Speaker 1: Kathy Chammers A Charmer's forgiven me very great to have

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