Eloise
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Khadalyce would have been 7 years old now. The legal age to begin school in Australia is generally 5 - 6 isn't it? Whose job is/was it to follow up and ensure children are enrolled in school, the NT equivalent of DOCS?
To the best of my knowledge no-one tracks school admissions across the nation with intent to see that kids don't fall through the gaps... each state has a government agency that follows up reports of kids not attending school. It would be expensive because people move around a lot (interstate and overseas) and prior to the computer systems of this century the difficulty would have been too great. Even now it would probably cost many millions to set up that sort of communication between the computers at various levels of government, and more millions each year to follow up.
There are thousands of unregistered homeschoolers in Australia. While educating your children is compulsory in Australia and all states have home ed registers, many people choose not to register. If they keep on the down low and don't attract the attention of a crusading school principal who reports them to DOCS, nobody is ever any the wiser. The home edders I know are all registered and 'do the right thing' but plenty don't. There isn't a central registry of children that gets checked against school enrolments across the country or anything like that, for the reasons reasypeasy gives.
My question is who told the mother that Karlie was safe she just didn't want family contact? Someone Karlie knew? The cops?