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Meekatharra RSAS team members ensure student packs get delivered

29 May 2020
Children and Schooling
A woman, named Janine Binsiar and a student, Cherice, are standing in a driveway in front of a house and are holding a school and hygiene supply pack.

Meekatharra Remote Attendance Strategy (RSAS) team members are busy helping local parents and carers by making lunches and school packs and ensuring that these are delivered to the door of students in need.

Meekatharra Remote Attendance Strategy (RSAS) team members are busy helping local parents and carers by making school lunches and ensuring that school and hygiene packs are delivered to the door of students in need.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, the team has adapted by:

  • Face-timing or phoning parents and students daily.
  • Making up hygiene packs including soap and other products.
  • Providing key resources to parents and children to increase their knowledge of COVID-19, primarily to stay safe and reduce the risk of transmission.
  • Providing simple, low budget and healthy recipes, which may include the drop off of relevant ingredients, for families to make together at home.

RSAS works with local providers to employ teams of school attendance supervisors and school attendance officers to help kids get to school.

Team members are local people from the community. They may be mums, dads, caregivers, aunties, uncles or grandparents who want to help kids in the community get to school.

RSAS operates in 84 schools in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

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The Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS) is a key initiative of the Australian Government designed to lift school attendance in selected remote communities across Australia.