School Law: Managing Student Risk: Child Protection, Whistleblowers and Family Breakdown
Issues covered include: child protection risks, whistleblowing risks, parenting orders, family violence orders, subpoenas
Description
Attend this webinar to better understand and manage the current child protection risks and those that arise when students grapple with family breakdown.
- There will be the ability to ask questions at the conclusion of each session via the online question portal.
- As well as online attendance, all delegates will receive recordings of each of the sessions after the webcast that can be viewed again at any time or shared with other colleagues.
- One registration will allow for multiple people from your school to attend the webcast.
For Lawyers
Attend and earn 3 CPD points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
For Teachers
Attend and earn 3 PD points
Attending this conference will contribute 3 hours of Professional Learning addressing the standards as listed from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher registration in Western Australia.
4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
7: Engage professionally with colleagues
Chair:
9.00am to 10.00am: Managing Child Protection Risks in Your School
- Source of child safe risk management obligations
- Design of a Child Safe Risk Framework
- Child safe risk hierarchy
- Examples of common child safe risks and controls
- Child safe risk management reporting
Presented by Craig D’cruz, National Education Lead, Complispace
10.00am to 10.05am: Break
10.05am to 11.05am: Supporting Whistleblowers: Risk and Responsibilities
Is your school ready to support whistleblowers? Whether or not your school is one whose policy must comply with the requirements set out in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019, you will learn about:
- The main changes to the law
- How to implement a workplace policy and what it should include
- Practical tips for training staff on whistleblower protections
- What to do if a disclosure is made, including conducting an investigation, employer obligations on reporting the misconduct, how to deal with the whistleblower and victimisation
Presented by Erica Hartley, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
11.05am to 11.10am: Break
11.10am to 12.10pm: Minimising the Risk for Schools When Students are Involved in Family Breakdown
- What you need to do to comply with Family Court rules; processes and strategies to provide effective management of parenting orders
- Parental rights to information when court orders are on foot and when they are not
- Family violence and apprehended violence orders
- What you need to know about responding to subpoenas
Presented by John Butler, Special Counsel, Butler Lawyers and Notaries
12.10pm to 12.15pm: Final Q & A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Testimonials
A useful day. Thank you.
Very relevant topics and comprehensive notes.