Thousands of New Zealand students are not enrolled in school and close to a thousand have been absent from school for more than a year.
Youth worker Brendon Crompton said the number didn’t line up with the reality of what he was seeing.
“Around 1000 children is too low. We have had more than 4000 referrals [of chronically absent students] since the start of the year,” he said.
A total of 8403 students were not enrolled in schools as of July. Of those, 912 of those had been unenrolled for more than a year, according to government data.
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