Education result card

The Safer Whanganui Steering Group is leading the Education priority focus area. This page summarises what they want to achieve to contribute to a Safer Whanganui. Download the full Education Result Card for further information about this project.

Overview of the Education result card

Result

All school aged children and young people are actively engaged in learning

Target population

All children and young people in Whanganui aged 5 to 18 years of age

How success will be measured (indicator)

Suspension rates in Whanganui Schools

Summarised Action Plan 

Actions		Lead Agency
Short Term (commencing early 2010):
1.	The Safer Whanganui Steering Group will invite further partners into the project	Safer Whanganui Steering Group
2.	Identify data needs, so that future actions are appropriately targetedThis could include: sharing reasons why students have been suspended across schools, at a more detailed level than is currently recorded in the MoE Suspension Categories identifying what measures schools put in place to avoid resorting to suspension identifying what strategies lead to the most successful results	Ministry of Education
3.	Develop collaborative strategies and actions that target the top five reasons for why children / young people are suspended.	Safer Whanganui Steering Group
Longer Term (commencing early 2011):
4.	Partners will collect qualitative data about why children and young people are engaging in the behaviours that are resulting in their suspension. This in turn will inform continued collaborative work to promote school and other agency engagement.	Safer Whanganui Steering Group

Family Services Directory

Click on the following link to go to the Family Services Directory for information about Education and Training services in Whanganui. Choose the display option at the top of the search page to only show services physically located in Whanganui.