3. Question No. 3—Education (School Operations)CHRIS BAILLIE (ACT) to the Associate Minister of Education (School Operations)Question No. 3—Education (School Operations)3. CHRIS BAILLIE (ACT) to the Associate Minister of Education (School Operations): Would she consider requiring attendance officers to report their data to the Ministry of Education; if not how is she evaluating whether the $16.5 million per annum spent on the Attendance Service is delivering results?Hon JAN TINETTI (Associate Minister of Education (School Operations)): To the first part of the question they already are required to do this. To give further assurance to the member the Attendance Service providers are required to provide an annual business plan six monthly reporting and an annual report to the Ministry of Education. This also includes monitoring on the key performance indicators set out in their contracts such as the number and duration of non-enrolled cases and the work to get them back into education. This information informs whether each attendance provider is delivering on their contract terms.Chris Baillie: Is the Minister concerned by the fact that 108 schools who could have submitted their attendance data for term 2 chose not to provide this information to the ministry and if so is she considering requiring schools to report their attendance data in 2023?Hon JAN TINETTI: We have a long historical time series that goes back to 2011. Compulsory data collection isn't on the current work programme. We have enough data to give us a nationwide picture of where things are at.Chris Baillie: Does the Minister think it is good enough that less than half of the 13739 non-enrolment notification cases and just over half of the 11031 unjustified absence cases referred to the Attendance Service from 1 January to late October have since returned to school and if not is the Minister considering any changes to attendance adviser contract requirements in 2023?Hon JAN TINETTI: Returning to school is one option for those young people. We also work on getting them into other forms of education and employment.Chris Baillie: Does the Minister believe that spending $1 million on a campaign to remind parents of the importance of school attendance was a good use of taxpayer money and if so what metrics have been implemented to measure the effectiveness of this awareness campaign?Hon JAN TINETTI: That money came out of baseline funding. If we have laser-sharp focus on getting our young people back into education training and employment we are seeing that those numbers are starting to change.David Seymour: Point of order Mr Speaker. The question was whether they got value for money. The Minister said that it came out of baseline funding that they had a laser-like focus and that the numbers were trying to change but she never addressed whether that particular expenditure had been effective in any way.SPEAKER: I counted three—I'll get the member to remind me of the question but I'm pretty sure I noted at least two legs to that.Chris Baillie: Does the Minister believe that spending $1 million on a campaign to remind parents of the importance of school attendance was a good use of taxpayer money and if so what metrics have been implemented to measure the effectiveness of this awareness campaign?SPEAKER: There are two parts. The first part was addressed.Chris Baillie: If the Government was able to publish the previous day's COVID cases every single day why does it take 15 weeks to publish attendance data and will the Government commit to publishing attendance data daily?Hon JAN TINETTI: This year is no different from any other year. The Ministry of Education has published the data from term 2 in exactly the same time as it has in every other year since 2011. One of the reasons that it does take so long for the ministry to publish that data is to make sure that that data is correct and to make sure that we have a good data set.