Hon JAN TINETTI (Associate Minister of Education (School Operations)): Earlier this month, the Government launched our comprehensive Attendance and Engagement Strategy that sets expectations and targets to turn around years of declining attendance rates. School attendance has been declining since 2015, and COVID-19 has made it worse. Throughout the pandemic, the Government has provided targeted resources and support for schools to respond to any disengagement by students through the Urgent Response Fund (URF). The URF model was distributed during a crisis response; it was during a global pandemic and one of the most challenging times in our recent history. Distributing this funding during this time was never going to lift overall attendance rates higher as we fought COVID-19. It was designed to be responsive to the situation. The strategy we have just launched takes the next steps. It will help us address longstanding issues around attendance and engagement through working closer with communities and addressing the causes.