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School Law Summit 2019 Brisbane

Workplace Investigations in Schools: Getting it Right

Issues covered include: incident management, reportable conduct scheme, complaint, workplace investigation, ill and injured staff, medical certificates

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School Law Summit 2019

Issues covered include: Family court proceedings, Subpoena, Separation, Divorce, Family violence, Litigation, Evidence, New Redress Scheme, Child Safety Obligations, Royal Commission, Civil Claims for Institutional Abuse, Criminal Liability and Sexual Abuse, Child Safe Standards.

School Law Symposium: Risks, Duties and Liabilities

Facing family law issues in your school? We have a step by step guide to guide you. Dealing with child safety risks? We’re offering real world guidance from the legal, law enforcement and principal perspectives. Want all your questions answered? Our interactive panels are tailor made for you. And that’s just the start of what you’ll gain from this unique, can’t miss event.

School Law 2019: Educate, Enlighten, Inform

Issues covered include: Parents, legal disasters, Privacy law, mental and physical health of staff, misconduct, disability and discrimination obligations, race, sex and gender identity, children with physical and learning disabilities

School Law Summit 2019

Let’s face it: schools have staff, schools have students, so schools have legal risks. Don’t be overwhelmed by the legal risks facing schools when managing staff and their performance at work. Prepare your school to handle the civil and, and potentially criminal, liabilities that arise from maintaining a child safe school.

Civil Claims for Institutional Abuse: Key Updates

"Issues covered include: the national redress scheme, issues and impact on survivors, medico legal assessments in abuse claims

School Law: 8 Critical Legal Issues

Issues covered include: divorce, separation, court orders, family violence, disability, discrimination, child protection, social media, staff misconduct, employment obligations, employee management, unfair dismissal

School Law Conference 2018

Be inspired by this knowledgeable panel of experts as we delve into the employment and school governance issues affecting your school right now, taking a thorough and practical look at such timely topics such as bullying and an interactive workshop on workplace investigation. Grapple with the very tricky area of social media and the digital age with timely advice and legal knowledge from the leading practitioners in the area. This detailed and comprehensive seminar is not to be missed.

Law for School Counsellors

Issues covered include: school counsellors, informed consent, student welfare, supporting transgender students - legal issues, online challenges

Law for School Business and Finance Managers

Make no mistake, managing a school is a financially and legally complex undertaking. If you are responsible for the business and financial management of your school then this conference is just what you need to avoid the risks that come from an incomplete understanding of the law. Ensure your school complies with employment and WHS requirements. Navigate key privacy laws, protect your school’s IP, avoid risks in managing tax issues, debt, and hiring out school facilities. All in one day, all in one place.

Law for School Business and Finance Managers

Make no mistake, managing a school is a financially and legally complex undertaking. If you are responsible for the business and financial management of your school then this conference is just what you need to avoid the risks that come from an incomplete understanding of the law. Ensure your school complies with employment and WHS requirements. Navigate key privacy laws, protect your school’s IP, avoid risks in managing tax issues, debt, and hiring out school facilities. All in one day, all in one place.

Law for School Counsellors

Issues covered include: school counsellors, student welfare, leadership, informed consent, family court proceedings, student well being, bullying, supporting transgender students, family conflict, Children’s Court proceedings

Law for School Counsellors

Issues covered include: legal risks to school counsellors, professional misconduct and negligence, best practice, reporting child abuse, family court proceedings, student wellbeing supporting transgender students.

School Law for New and Aspiring School Leaders

Issues covered include: managing risk, problematic parents, family law, poor performance, discipline, ill and injured employees, bullying and harassment.

School Law for New and Aspiring School Leaders

Issues covered include:safety, compliance, disciplinary issues, ill and injured employees, workplace investigations

Law for New and Aspiring School Leaders

You’re a newly appointed, aspiring or experienced school leader. You want to succeed in your role or mentor and support fellow leaders and colleagues at your school. How can you make the most of the opportunity while effectively managing the legal risks and pitfalls you might encounter? When you become a leader it’s crucial that you and your colleagues engage with and understand the fundamental, emerging and evolving legal framework in which schools operate.

School Law for New and Aspiring School Leaders

Issues covered include: Family Law and Schools: Your Duties and Responsibilities as a School Leader, Duty of Care and Workplace Health and Safety, The New Human Rights Act and the Right to Education, Obtaining the Appropriate Insurance: Protecting Your School and Staff, Social Media, Staff and the Law, Managing Challenging Behaviour of Staff, Bullying and Harassment,

School Law for New and Aspiring School Leaders

Issues covered include:Managing Key Relationships, managing risk, Family law, Disciplining and Performance Managing, Workplace Bullying , Ill and Injured Employees

School Law: Managing Whole of School, WHS & Parent Risks

Issues covered include: enterprise risk management, vexatious and bullying parents, WHS

School Law: Managing Whole of School, WHS and Offsite Risks

Issues covered include: enterprise risk management, offsite risk, student duty of care, sporting activities, WHS

Law for School Counsellors, Psychologists and Guidance Officers

Issues covered include: family law conflicts, duty of care, bullying, supporting transgender and gender diverse students

Work Health and Safety Considerations in Schools During the Pandemic

Issues covered include: WHS, remote working, re-transitioning, employer and employee duties, risk assessment

Advice for Creating a Child Safe Remote Learning Environment

COVID 19: Legal Updates for Schools

While closing the gates for most students may have addressed the health concerns of schools, students and parents, it’s important to realise that moving to online learning and keeping your school afloat does not mean legal obligations are reduced or changed although it may require a re-imagination of some.

Advice on Contractual Rights and Financial Wellbeing in Your School

Issues covered include: commercial contracts, financial stability, financial risk, financial vulnerability

CANCELLED: COVID-19: Legal Updates for Schools: The Employment Law Consequences of COVID-19

While closing the gates for most students may have addressed the health concerns of schools, students and parents, it’s important to realise that moving to online learning and keeping your school afloat does not mean legal obligations are reduced or changed although it may require a re-imagination of some. This webinar series has been created to bring you information on key legal issues confronting school leaders during these uncertain times.

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

School Law: How the New Child Protection Regulations Will Work

The Office of the Children’s Guardian is an independent government agency that works to protect children by promoting and regulating quality, child safe organisations and services. Attend this webinar to hear from the Children’s Guardian on changes made that came into force on 1 March 2020 regarding child safety and its impact on schools.

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

School Law: Managing Your Child Protection and Whistleblowing Risks

Issues covered include: child protection risks, whistleblowing risks

School Law: Managing Child Safety Obligations

Issues covered include: child protection risks in light of the recent release of findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, child safety obligations in schools, and Child Safe Standards.

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.

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

School Law Series

It’s imperative school leaders have a comprehensive knowledge of the many legal obligations that school are required to understand and implement. In one neat package at the special price of $995, this School Law Series will provide you with 15 hours of critical legal information about a school’s legal risk for workplace health and safety, offsite risk, child protection, protecting whistleblowers, family law, workplace law in relation to employing casuals, avoiding claims for wage theft and much more.

School Law: Managing Whole of School, WHS and Offsite Risks

Gain guidance on how to design, implement, and monitor an effective school-wide risk management system in your school. Master how to identify, assess and control workplace health & safety risks at your school. Explore what you need to do to avoid and manage legal risks related to offsite activities.

School Law: Child Protection, Whistleblowers & Family Breakdown

Examine your school’s child protection obligations, the legal risks involved, and how to design and implement child safe risk management, controls and reporting. Identify your school’s employment law requirements related to whistleblowers and the policies you need to implement to meet your legal obligations. Gain a practical guide to the many legal risks arising from a family breakdown and what your school must do to navigate these difficult and fraught situations.

School Law: Spotlight on Workplace Law

Examine the many legal risks, rights and obligations related to mental health in the workplace at your school, including what you must do to remain legally compliant while supporting your staff. Identify and consider how to navigate new legal risks related to casual employees in schools. Work through the key steps you need to follow in any situation involving a workplace investigation at your school.

School Law: Student Violence, Informed Consent & the School Counsellor’s Role

Identify your school’s legal rights and obligations when students are violent either at home or at school, and what you can and should do to support families, students and staff. Delve into the school counsellor’s perspective and what they can do to manage student violence. Gain a step by step guide into when you should involve the police, what will happen, and what you need to know and do throughout the process. Finally, consider informed consent, what it means for your school, & your school’s legal duties