The Huddle: Will the Government's truancy scheme work? - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Tonight on the Huddle, Matt Heath from Radio Hauraki and broadcaster Paddy Gower joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day- and more!

The Government has unveiled a scheme designed to combat truancy- including publishing weekly attendance data, giving parents health guidance to decide if a child's sick enough to miss school and creating a traffic light scheme to track attendance rates. Will this work? 

There's a new hospital building attached to North Shore Hospital sitting unused- what's going on with that? In a time of endless wait-lists, is it madness that this is happening?

Fake meat-company Sunfed is shutting down- is the plant-based meat craze dying? 

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