Helping your child attend school

Talk to your child's teacher or principal if you need with getting your child to school.

In some remote communities student engagement advisors or school attendance officers also help to ensure your child goes to school.

School attendance is everyone’s responsibility.

Role of school attendance officers

School attendance officers may be mums, dads, caregivers, aunties, uncles or grandparents from your local community who can help with:

• talking to you and your child about the importance of going to school
• working with you to help get your child to school
• providing practical support to you like driving your child to school, organising for the school bus to transport your child to school, and uniforms.
• working with your child's school to ensure your child is at school and letting you know if your child does not attend
• rewarding your child if they go to school.

Go to the National Indigenous Australians Agency website for more about getting your child to school.

Contacts

For more information contact the student engagement teams:

• Central region - call 1800 206 317 or 0439 164 942
• Barkly - 0408 707 469
• Big Rivers - 0499 785 496
• Top End -  0429 123 860
• East Arnhem - 0455 658 512
• Darwin - 0428 294 051