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Student Wellbeing and Safety
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Food and Nutrition
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- Improved the tailoring options in the topic.
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Food Safety
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- Added an explanation about selling food for fundraising.
- Improved the accuracy of this topic for schools in the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme.
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Ka Ora, Ka Ako | healthy school lunches programme
(optional topic)
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- Added new default wording about taking into account feedback on food quality and menu suitability.
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Sun Protection (primary and intermediate schools)
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- Brought staff into the policy more clearly as schools have a responsibility to protect workers under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
- Reordered sections/paragraphs in the topic to better fit the structure and tone of other similar policies in our document set.
- Added sun protection to our list of board assurances as a matter of risk management to improve compliance with sun protection practices and awareness of responsibilities.
- Added wording about recording sun-related harm.
- This topic has moved to the Safety On and Off School Grounds section as it's about everyone's safety not just students.
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Sun Protection (secondary and composite schools)
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Playground Supervision
(primary and intermediate schools)
Interval and Lunch Supervision
(composite and secondary schools)
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- Added new default wording about sun protection practices.
- Added wording about minor injuries dealt with by staff in the playground. This wording will only be visible to schools who have it in the Managing Injuries and Illness topic.
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Before and After School Supervision
(previously optional)
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- This topic was previously optional for non-secondary schools. We now strongly recommend that all schools have this topic to show how you're meeting your primary duty of care.
- We will offer this topic to secondary schools as an optional topic.
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Missing Student Procedure
(primary and intermediate schools)
Missing Student Procedure
(composite schools)
Missing Student Procedure
(secondary schools)
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- Clarified what situations would require implementing the missing student procedures, including emergencies.
- Added wording about what to do if a student is missing due to a specific incident, such as a trespasser on grounds, or a suspected kidnapping.
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Rights of Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers
(previously called Separated Parents, Day-to-Day Care, and Guardianship)
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- This updated topic combines parts of three existing topics: Separated Parents, Day-to-Day Care, and Guardianship, The Rights of the Guardian and the School, and Contact Rights and the School.
- Clarified information in this topic and combined it with related information.
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Parent/Guardian Arrangements
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- This is a new topic which combines parts of the existing topics Separated Parents, Day-to-Day Care, and Guardianship, and Surnames.
- Made minor changes to this topic and moved information about surnames into this topic, along with information about how to tailor this information to your school.
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The Rights of the Guardian and the School
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Contact Rights and the School
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Surnames
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