TAMWORTH's truancy problems will be laid bare for the education minister as the council looks to home-in on school skippers.
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Tamworth Regional Council's crime prevention group has had wagging at the top of its agenda for more than year.
While some headway has been made, the group is looking for holistic ways to get students back in the classroom and also participating in the community.
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Earlier this month, the group's chairman, councillor Russell Webb, floated an sports-based incentive and subsidy program to get kids motivated to go to school and involved in the community.
The crime prevention group met last week where truancy and potential ways to address it were discussed.
Since then, Cr Webb said he has secured a meeting with the NSW education minister, Gunnedah's Sarah Mitchell.
He told the Leader talks would be centred on truancy in Tamworth.
"We'll be having discussions along the lines of what can we do, through her department and what can we do through any other government agencies that will manage truancy and reduce it in our community," he said.
"It's about what [Minister Mitchell] and the government foresees as opportunities to help, not just in Tamworth but, across the state."
Cr Webb said making education more attractive for students would also be discussed after he'd heard kids weren't turning-up because they perceived the classes were irrelevant.
He'd received feedback from students which suggested they weren't happy with the subjects they were compulsorily required to learn.
"Some of the youth, they don't want to go school because they don't want to do some of the subjects they have to participate in; they feel it'll have no benefit to them their journey through life," he said.
"If I had to learn French and I felt it had no benefit to me in the future, I might feel a bit the same."