Tailor training for your school.
Choose content from the list of objectives.
Or add your own.
I deliver any combination of the grouped competencies to suit the needs of your staff.
Choose from the School-Parent Partnership, and the Student and Staff Safety and Wellbeing.
I include ‘Defining Reality’ debunking the myths undermining staff authority and decision making.
I use the authority of the law to reveal, affirm, and build on staff professional strengths.
Together we will restore your staff’s confidence in their professional authority.
The School - Parent Relationship
Define the role of parents as first educators and partners in a child’s education.
Describe the legal obligations of parents to the school.
Describe the options available to parents dissatisfied with a decision.
Identify the rights and duties of parents in an enrolment agreement.
List the obligations on parents at enrolment and beyond.
Describe the relevance of the enrolment agreement to a student’s education.
Define the Parent-Teacher Authority Boundary.
Describe the scope of Principal and staff authority and control over students.
Identify and respond to parents overstepping boundaries.
Avoid being drawn into family conflict.
Identify the relevance of court orders on school operations.
Respond to court orders.
Address and Resolve Complaints
Describe the complaint management process.
Identify when a complaint has been resolved.
Administer Split Families
Respond to demands from individual parents in split families.
Respond to demands arising from new partners and extended family members.
Respond to Requests for Access to School Information
Apply the Privacy Act 1988 to the handling of personal information.
Process parent and other requests for access to personal information.
Manage Dual Relationships
Apply appropriate boundaries to out of hours contact with students.
Apply appropriate boundaries to dual relationships with students and their families.
Staff and Student Safety and Wellbeing
Discharge Duty of Care
Describe the legal concept of duty of care as it applies to schools.
Discharge duty of care.
Describe the Principal’s authority and control over school premises.
Describe the Principal’s right to search property on school grounds.
Describe the Principal’s duty to protect people entering school grounds.
Describe the relevance of a school code of conduct to child safety.
Identify the sources of risk to student safety and wellbeing.
Apply the code of conduct to address those risks.
Comply with External Reporting Obligations
Comply with Mandatory Reporting, and Reportable Conduct.
Identify and Address Risks to Students on Interstate and Overseas Excursions
List the risks to students when outside the WA jurisdiction.
Assess the risks in deciding whether to conduct the excursions.
Identify and address risks to older students from peer-to-peer sexual relationships
Address individual and community risk of student accused of sexual abuse.
Identify effect on age of consent of power relationships.
Make Reasonable Adjustments for Students with Disability
Identify reasonable adjustments ensuring students with disability are included.
Manage behaviour of students with disability.
Apply Good Decision Making
List and apply the five steps to a good decision.
Use good decision making to respond to complaints and in continuous improvement.