I want to make a special mention of the following year 13 students: Sean Brownlow, student at Takapuna Grammar School; Silas Zhang, head student at Riccarton High School; Ashleigh Putt-Fallows, Southland Girls' High School, Invercargill; and fa'afetai to Iszak Tuala, year 13 student in Christchurch. It was great that we have these student voices amongst the 55 oral submissions that our select committee heard. They spoke to us about the importance of manaakitanga and of taking the holistic approach to issues of school attendance, and the need for complex and nuanced approaches to address these—with ākonga at the centre of that solution. These young submitters clearly understood that the underlying causes of non-attendance are complex and that there's not an easy fix. 