new zealand school absence prosecution

Associate Education Minister David Seymour promised the Government would be tougher on truancy. Photo / Mark Mitchell The Government is taking a parent to court over their child’s chronic absence from school as part of the truancy crackdown heralded by Associate Education Minister David Seymour. Seymour last year promised the Government would be tougher on non-attendance using “coercive power” including prosecution. He said it was not changing rules, but ramping up enforcement. Seymour has now told RNZ at least one prosecution was “ongoing”, which he said showed he was serious about the crackd