Internal review updates

Cellphones and Other Personal Digital Devices

• Updated to align with mandatory cellphone regulations.

Safety Checking

• Clarified the legal basis of safety checking, who is safety checked, how safety checks are done, and safety checks from others.
• Updated record-keeping information to show safety checking and police vet information should be kept for seven years from the date of the last action.
• Updated 'criminal convictions' dropdown.

Police Vetting

• Updated title from "Police Vetting for Non-Teachers".
• Added information about police vetting children's workers who have lived overseas.

Teacher Registration and Certification

• Clarified the role of the board and principal in checking teacher registration and certification, and conducting safety checks on staff.

Contractors Working at School

• Outlined requirements for the school and contractors in planning access and in safety checking contractors that may have unsupervised access to students during school hours.

Student Teachers

• Clarified requirement to safety check student teachers.

Referee and Background Checks

• Clarified the role of the board and principal in police vetting and safety checking new employees.

Visitors

• Clarified requirements for safety checking visiting workers who may have unsupervised access to students during school hours.

Classroom Release Time

• Updated allocations to reflect increase to classroom release time from term 1 2024.

Media

• Removed reference to schedule of delegations as designated contacts are covered in the second paragraph.

COVID-19 Health Measures

• Updated resource links as information about COVID-19 on government sites has moved.

Self-harm

• Removed wording relating to spread of misinformation and potential copycat behaviour from under "Support for others" to align with good practice.

Bomb Threat

• Broadened this policy to include guidelines around bomb threats by means other than telephone (e.g. emails).

Personal Grievance

• Updated this policy to show new legislation about the timing for personal grievance claims.

Interval and Lunch Supervision

• Updated wording from "injury or illness in the playground" to "injury or illness at break times".