School Law: Managing Risk to Students - 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 Teachers:
Attend and earn 3 CPD points (QLD & SA)
Attending this conference will contribute 3 hours of CPD addressing the standards as listed from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining teacher registration
7.2 Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements: understand the implications of, and comply with, relevant legislative, administrative, organisational and professional requirements, policies and processes.
Attend and earn 3 Professional Development Hours (NSW)
Completing this conference will contribute 3 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority PD addressing 6.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW
Attend and earn 3 hours of PD (VIC)
Attending this conference will contribute 3 hours of PD addressing the standards as listed from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining
Proficient Teacher registration in Victoria.
7.2 Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements: understand the implications of, and comply with, relevant legislative, administrative, organisational and professional requirements, policies and processes.
For Lawyers:
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW, VIC, QLD legislation
Chair: Liz Cannon, Director of Wellbeing and Counselling, Abbotsleigh School
9.00am to 10.00am: Managing Child Protection Risks in Your School
It is now recognised that in order to develop a child safe culture it is critical that schools implement a child safe risk management frameworks.
- 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 Deborah de Fina, Head of Child Protection, Complispace
10.00am to 10.05am: Break
10.05am to 11.05am: Protecting a Whistleblower: Your Risk Backstop
Is your school ready to support whistleblowers? Must your school have a whistleblower policy that complies with the new Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019? If you have one, is it effective?
- An overview of the whistleblower legislation including a summary of 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 Jonathon Corlett, Partner, Thomson Geer
10.05am to 10.10am: Break
11.10am to 12.10pm: Managing Risk for Schools in Family Law: The Most Asked Questions about Parenting Orders, Urgent Family Violence Orders and Subpoenas
Address your knowledge gaps regarding the challenges facing schools when students are involved in family breakdown. Hear from our family law experts to find out about;
- The family law process in a nutshell
- The most pressing issues facing schools when students are confronted by family violence and what you need to know about the way courts respond to such allegations, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic affected families in crisis
- What you need to do to effectively manage parenting orders and reduce the many risks faced by schools
- Parental rights to information when court orders are on foot and when they are not
- What you need to know about responding to subpoenas
Presented by Alicia Elliott, Director, Holmes Donnelly & Co Solicitors and Melanie Stern, Managing Associate, Stern Law Solicitors
Testimonials
Great learning experience
Fabulous. Relevant and practical
Extremely valuable/current information
Lots of great insights and advice which I will take back to school