❓ Hon Donna Faragher asks about the number and location of dedicated attendance officers within the Department of Education. The answer clarifies that attendance duties are integrated into existing roles, providing a headcount of 'badged attendance officers' by region.
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I refer to attendance officers employed by the Department of Education, and I ask: (a) how many attendance officers, by headcount and FTE, are currently employed by the Department of Education; and (b) for each officer referred to in (a), please provide a breakdown of which education region the attendance officer is employed?
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Answered
7 November 2023
Responded by
Leader of the House representing the Minister for Education
Response time
8 days
(a)-(b) Every teacher in every school has a responsibility for student attendance. Principals have delegated responsibility, on behalf of the Minister for Education, to authorise staff to perform the duties of an attendance officer, as per section 33 of the School Education Act 1999 . The table below reflects the number of departmental staff with the designation of “badged attendance officers”.
Sections 33 and 34 of the School Education Act 1999 provide for the designation and badging of attendance officers. Any person employed in the Department can be designated with this authority; it is not a defined position. Staff accept the responsibilities of a badged attendance officer as part of their normal duties.
Any role can be a badged attendance officer. The Department has a record of the number of badged attendance officers, not the proportion of their role allocated to the function.
Badged Attendance Officers
Headcount
Goldfields Region
76
Kimberley Region
79
Midwest Region
122
North Metropolitan Region
436
Pilbara Region
163
South Metropolitan Region
352
Southwest Region
169
Wheatbelt Region
88
Total
1,485
Headcount figures are as at 2 October 2023.
Sections 33 and 34 of the School Education Act 1999 provide for the designation and badging of attendance officers. Any person employed in the Department can be designated with this authority; it is not a defined position. Staff accept the responsibilities of a badged attendance officer as part of their normal duties.
Any role can be a badged attendance officer. The Department has a record of the number of badged attendance officers, not the proportion of their role allocated to the function.
Badged Attendance Officers
Headcount
Goldfields Region
76
Kimberley Region
79
Midwest Region
122
North Metropolitan Region
436
Pilbara Region
163
South Metropolitan Region
352
Southwest Region
169
Wheatbelt Region
88
Total
1,485
Headcount figures are as at 2 October 2023.
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