Interventions

Attendance Management Plans (AMP) are formal, documented plans that require all state and state-integrated schools to outline how they will monitor, manage, and improve student attendance. Their purpose is to provide clear processes for identifying and responding to absences, including proactive strategies to prevent and address poor or irregular attendance. The requirement for all state and state-integrated school boards to have an AMP in place takes effect from the start of Term 1, 2026.

Interventions

AMP uses the STAR (Stepped Attendance Response) framework, which triggers an ‘event’ when a student reaches a defined absence threshold. When a student reaches one of these thresholds (Green = fewer than 5 days, Yellow = 5–9 days,
Orange = 10–14 days, Red = 15 or more days of absence per term), STAR automatically prompts the school to act, through an ‘intervention’.

Stepped attendance response – STAR - Ministry of Education

Effective attendance management involves taking timely and appropriate actions as attendance patterns emerge.

Within Edge, the ‘Interventions’ feature supports this by allowing you to filter and search using criteria such as ‘Term’, ‘Date’, ‘Threshold’, or by Student.  (Attendance>Attendance Records>Interventions)

This not only helps identify which students need attention but can help guide the level of response as well as provide a quick check that appropriate actions have been taken — through the count of logged interventions recorded at each threshold.