School Law: Legal Issues in Business Management
If you are responsible for the business management of your school then this webinar is just what you need to avoid the risks that come from an incomplete understanding of the law. Ensure your school complies with key privacy laws; protects its intellectual property and avoid legal risk in managing the hiring out of school facilities.
Description
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Dr Steve Middlteon, Principal, St Margaret’s and Berwick Grammar School
9.00am to 9.45am: The Complexities of the Privacy Legislation and Safeguarding Against Non-Compliance
- Understanding your legal privacy requirements
- Reviewing the current Federal privacy laws, recent amendments and obligations to report infringement
- Reviewing and working with privacy policies, processes and guidelines
- Identifying practical steps to tighten up gaps in your privacy policies
- Examining recent cases and lessons to learn to prevent a potential breach
- Remediating against further privacy breaches
Presented by Andrea Beatty, Financial Services & FinTech Partner, Piper Alderman
9.45am to 10.30am: Managing Your School’s Reputational Risk During a Crisis: The Gift and the Curse of Social Media
- Policies and rules for establishing social media in a school environment
- The role of social media in managing reputation and risk
- Planning and managing a critical incident: practical steps
Presented by Tracey Cain, Managing Director, Australian Public Affairs
10.30am to 10.40am: Break
10.40am to 11.25am: Protecting Your Brand and Your Assets: Intellectual Property Concerns For Schools
- What a school can and can’t protect: an overview
- How to protect it: copyright, confidential information and know-how, domain names, registered and unregistered trade marks
- How to bring stakeholders into the fold: licensing existing support groups and clubs
- Brand management on a practical level
- School employees and rights around confidential information, know-how, and development of new materials
Presented by Peter Campbell, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
11.25am to 12.15pm: Legal Issues Associated with Hiring out School Facilities
- Risk considerations in hiring of school facilities
- Potential liability in contract, tort and statute
- Insurance considerations
- Common scenarios and case examples
Presented by Justine Siavelis, Principal, Gilchrist Connell
For Teachers:
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 CPD points (QLD, WA, 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 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