Hon JAN TINETTI: As I've said before in this House, attendance started to decline in 2015. That was shortly after the Attendance Service was taken away into a more bureaucratic system from schools by the then - National Government. I would admit that the two years of battling a global pandemic has had a major impact—and rightly so. Post-lockdown, some parents have been worried about sending their kids back to the classroom for learning, but this Government introduced a range of evidence-based practices to address that. Only today, I had principal from a decile 1 school contact me to say that they are incredibly excited that the ability that that has given them, that today they have 94 percent attendance back in their decile 1 school.