School Law: Managing Risks for Child Protection, Whistleblowers and Family Breakdown
Issues covered include: child protection risks, whistleblowing risks, family violence orders, Children's Court
Description
Attend this webinar to better understand and manage how in Victoria school you should best 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 hours of PD
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 Points in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
Chair: Henry Grossek, Principal, Berwick Lodge Primary School
9.00am to 9.10am: Opening comments by the chair
School leaders have been under enormous pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. As each week past the impact of decisions made on staff and families increased in various ways. Take this opportunity to reflect on the impact of working remotely for schools and how that may contribute the various types of risks that schools will confront in the future.
9.10am to 10.05am: 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 Elizabeth Aitken, Partner, Moray & Agnew
10.05am to 10.10am: Break
10.10am to 11.05am: Supporting Whistleblowers: Your Risk Backstop
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 Cecelia Irvine-So, Partner, Moores
11.05am to 11.10am: Break
11.10am to 12.10pm: Family Breakdowns: Managing Risk for Schools in Family Law, Urgent Family Violence Orders, and Children’s Court Scenarios
- What you need to do to comply with Family Court rules: processes and strategies to provide effective management of court orders
- Family Violence and Intervention Orders and the newly established list to fast track applications
- Parental rights to information when court orders are on foot and when they are not
- What you need to know about the operation between the Family Court, the Children’s Court and Intervention Orders
- What you need to know about responding to subpoenas
Presented by Rebecca Dahl, Partner and Alastair Noakes, Associate, Nicholes Family Lawyers
12.10pm to 12.15pm: Q & A and Final Comments by the Chair