The Greens have called on the Education Ministers Meeting to put action on school refusal at the top of its agenda, after Labor squibbed its response to a Senate report into the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government has agreed or supported in principle two of the 14 recommendations<\/u><\/a> in the Education and Employment Committee\u2019s report into \u201cThe national trend of school refusal and related matters\u201d<\/u><\/a>, which was tabled in August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A national Lonergan poll<\/u><\/a> commissioned by the Greens found that two in five families experienced what advocates prefer to call \u201cschool can\u2019t\u201d in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens spokesperson on Primary & Secondary Education, Senator Penny Allman-Payne:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cParents, carers and advocates have been crying out for help and action on school can\u2019t for years, but those cries have fallen on deaf ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a national issue that requires a national response and Labor has thrown it in the too-hard basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe inquiry\u2019s report recommended a range of very basic measures to begin to address this issue and provide much-needed assistance to families in crisis \u2013 including developing a national action plan and providing funding for a peer support group \u2013 but Labor\u2019s response will leave those families without much hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSchool can\u2019t is a crisis of exclusion. Students are being forced out of rigid, commodified and under-resourced educational systems that are not fit to meet their complex needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFamilies experiencing school can\u2019t aren\u2019t able to access appropriate support for their children or themselves, and their physical health, mental health and financial well-being suffer as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe next Education Ministers Meeting must put this issue squarely at the top of the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have called on the Education Ministers Meeting to put action on school refusal at the top of its agenda, after Labor squibbed its response to a Senate report into the crisis. The government has agreed or supported in principle two of the 14 recommendations in the Education and Employment Committee\u2019s report into \u201cThe national trend of … Continue reading “LABOR REFUSES ACTION ON SCHOOL REFUSAL”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26140,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions\/26140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}