TESD
Truancy Emergency Safer Division
The Truancy Emergency Safer Division (TESD) is a dedicated unit focused on addressing and mitigating truancy issues. Its primary objective is to ensure the safety and well-being of students by actively monitoring school attendance, intervening in cases of unexcused absences, and collaborating with families, schools, and community resources. TESD aims to reduce truancy rates, identify underlying causes of absenteeism, and implement supportive measures to help students remain engaged in their education and avoid risks associated with being out of school unsupervised.
TRUANCY, RECONCILIATION AND ENGAGEMENT UNIT
VISION: "To ensure every child in Tonga between the age of 4 to 18 years old shall have the right to receive a quality education
MISSION: "To improve equitable, access, relevant and sustainable quality education for all children in Tonga from age 4 to 18 years old."
OBJECTIVES AND GOALS:
TRUANCY:
- To build a strong relationship between TRC team, Principals, teachers, parents and community ensuring that every child access to a quality Education.
- To build a strong relationship between Ministry’s divisions and other Education System in order to create a healthy learning environment for a child to access Quality Education
- To ensure that the Education Act and Regulation are being reached to the Primary and Secondary Schools’ Administration and must informed and enforced.
- To access to relevant data to improve Quality Education.
- To access to data for identification of Potential Drop-Out Students.
- To Seek monetary assistance to support students with financial problems
RECONCILIATION
- To build and maintain a strong relationship between TREU team with other Stakeholders (Ministry of Police, Ministry of Internal Affairs and other interested Non- Government Organisations, such as Salvation Army etc.
and the secondary schools.
- Seek avenue which allows violent students for open dialogue to identify solutions to combat against violence at school through using retreats and workshops.
- To maintain respect and seek a diversity of perspectives and experiences to build resilience for all schools in Tonga.
- To use church leaders, local government and non- government organisation to intervene in violence at school.
- To ensure that school’s environment in Tonga is a place where people can learn and grow together through sharing our knowledge, experiences and diversity of cultures.
ENGAGEMENT:
- To identifying potential problems that causes drop out student with proposed intervention to solve the problem of attendance, dropout and violence in school
- To enforce of Education Act, Policies and Regulation to strengthen attendance of students.
- To seek help from other Ministries, (MIA, POLICE, MOH and local government to reduce drop outs and problematic students
- To seek school help in engaging attendance issue, drop outs and violence in school
SAFER SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
- Improve the school environment to be compliant with Building Codes for safety and resilience.
- Improve the education sector’s response to disasters.
- Improve evidence-based decision making policy formulation and vulnerability reporting before, during and after disasters.
SERVICES WE PROVIDE
- Monitoring students’ and teachers’ attendance.
- Re-enroll drop out students whose ages are between 4-18.
- Home visit to problematic students
- Counselling
- Maintain and uphold peace amongst schools.
- Mental well-being of both students and teachers
- Implementing of national drills at schools for DRR
- Assess and monitor building/construction of schools.
