These procedures set out the actions necessary for compliance with the Protecting and Supporting Children and Young People Policy. All staff have a duty to recognise safety, welfare or wellbeing concerns for children and young people that arise from or during the course of their work. It outlines responsibilities of staff and provides overview flowcharts...

There is an historic opportunity to reform our school funding arrangements and a school funding system which is one of the most complex, opaque and confusing in the developed world, argues this submission. This submission provides further evidence to the Review of Funding for Schooling in response to the key areas outlined in the December...

The National School Chaplaincy Program aims to support school communities that wish to access the services of a school chaplain or secular pastoral care worker. In August 2010, the Australian Government announced that a total of $222 million would be provided to extend the National School Chaplaincy Program to December 2014 and to fund up...

The National Safe Schools Framework vision is underpinned by the following guiding principles that represent fundamental beliefs about safe, supportive and respectful school communities. These guiding principles emphasise the importance of student safety and wellbeing as a pre-requisite for effective learning in all school settings.

The IEA Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES) is an international comparative research program studying the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in education. Its central focus is on understanding how ICT affects the way teaching and learning takes place in schools. In many educational systems there is a desire to use ICT...