• Positive Youth Development Through Education: a research-based resource published in 2014 for Attendance Services, Schools and other related practitioners seeking to enhance opportunities for young people at risk of disengagement from schooling. https://www.teorahou.org.nz/pyd

This resource is intended to sit alongside Positive Youth Development Aotearoa (PYDA - link).

• Young people and caregivers’ perspectives on truancy and non-enrolment: a qualitative research report published in 2018 based on 40 interviews of non-enrolled young people, and their caregivers. Young people and caregivers’ perspectives on truancy and non-enrolment 

• Know Me Believe in Me. Kia Mārama Mai, Kia Whakapono Mai. A 2020 report providing a rangatahi perspective of how we can support attendance, engagement and wellbeing in mainstream education. Developed as part of a collaboration between the Ministry of Education, The Southern Initiative, The Auckland Co-Design Lab, The Middlemore Foundation and rangatahi, schools, whānau and educators in Manurewa and Rotorua. Know Me Believe in Me. Kia Mārama Mai, Kia Whakapono Mai — The Lab 

• Ihi Research: a 2022 study of Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi's innovative approach to working with schools to improve student attendance. Positioning for Truancy Innovation: Report for Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi — Ihi Research 

• Ihi Research: a follow-up (also published in 2022) to the previous study, focused on the voices of rangatahi who were supported by the innovation, to understand their lived experience of school and to identify the enablers and barriers to impact, therefore learning how we might better support schools to lift engagement and attendance. Narratives from Youth: Evaluation of the Truancy Innovation — Ihi Research 

• School Attendance: Enablers and Barriers. A 2025 publication by the University of Auckland. "Attendance data alone offers an incomplete picture of the factors that influence school attendance. Our findings highlight that young people bring a unique perspective to understanding enablers and barriers - perspectives that often diverge from those of parents, educators and policymakers." https://ourvoices.auckland.ac.nz/publications/

• Back to class: How are attitudes to attendance changing? A 2025 summary of the Education Review Office's review to find out how regular attendance and attitudes to attendance are changing, and identify which actions and supports makes a positive difference. Back to class: How are attitudes to attendance changing? 

• Bridging the Gap: How well do we support students learning in alternative settings? A 2026 report by the Education Review Office. Bridging the Gap: How well do we support students learning in alternative settings? Main Report