The Government's taking action on poor school attendance rates through a 74-million dollar package.
More than 80 attendance officer positions are being created to work with around three-thousand students who are continually bunking class.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirms that it's a different approach than previous efforts, which had a range of contracted providers who could employ whoever they wanted.
In the wake of Gabrielle, people are being urged to hand in any evidence of post-disaster crime.
Hipkins told Mike Hosking that claims of looting and other crime are being investigated, but so far they're unsubstantiated or there was another explanation.
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