Regular Attendance and Dropout Prevention Department

The Regular Attendance / Truancy Department is responsible for enforcing compulsory education and preventing student dropouts, by virtue of the authority granted to it by the Ministry of Education.

Truancy officers work in cooperation, under the authority of the Compulsory Education Law, 1949, with the aim of ensuring compliance with the law by preventing student dropouts and returning and integrating dropouts back into the education system.

Truancy officers are employees of the Local Authority. Professionally, they report to the Truancy Department of the Ministry of Education, and administratively, to the Local Authority.

The department makes full use of the information, alerts, and supervision at its disposal to ensure that those in the education system and social services who work with struggling students act to fulfill their responsibilities to ensure that students remain in school until the end of 12th grade.

The department's employees work together with all of the city's treatment providers to prevent dropouts. In addition to enforcing the law, the department works on the educational-pedagogical side to prevent dropouts by developing and implementing educational assistance programs in schools.

Throughout the year, the department conducts operations to locate students who are not enrolled in school and works to return them to regular schooling or refer them to a treatment provider, while monitoring them until the age of 18.

The operation of two mechanisms – supervision and enforcement on the one hand, and educational treatment and academic assistance on the other – reinforce the concept of responsibility both among educational authorities – the principal, teacher, and counselor – and among the student and his or her family, who are invited to take responsibility under the preferential conditions offered to them.

Address: 1 Golan Street, last entrance – top floor. Office hours: Sunday–Thursday, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.