School Law: Managing Reputational Risk
Issues covered include: school social media policies, protection from defamation claims, drafting parental codes of conduct, enrolment contracts and disciplinary policies.
Description
Explore the elements of an effective strategy to manage your school’s reputation in today’s complex social media environment. Attend to learn about balancing the tension between keeping the community informed, protecting reputation and managing legal risk.
- 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 1 CPD point
Attending this conference will contribute 1 hour 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.
For Lawyers:
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Deanne Fishburn, Director, Queensland College of Teachers
10.15am to 11.15am: Protecting the School’s Reputation: The Tools you will Need
- Drafting the best social media policies
- Concerns about defamation: protecting the principal and other staff
- Parental Codes of Conduct - managing difficult and aggressive parents
- Enrolment contracts
- Disciplinary policies
Presented by Luke Geary, Partner, Mills Oakley
Testimonials
Excellent content with expert presenters
All presenters were very knowledgeable and focused on the law as related to schools and the leadership
Extremely informative and beneficial for leaders within schools