Highlands School

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Emailhighlands-s.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Webboard DET Legal Guidelines

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Topic 1: Dealing with Family Law Related Issues in DET & TAFE

DEALING WITH FAMILY LAW RELATED ISSUES IN SCHOOLS AND TAFE NSW

GUIDELINES FOR SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE STAFF

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This document deals with a great number of school issues, some are:

  • Pg 7 - General Issues Relating to Children
  • Pg 8 - Enrolment.
  • Pg 9 - Name to be Used for Enrolment and Name Changes Generally
  • Pg 10 - Advising Parents that Children are Enrolled in a Particular School
  • Pg 11 - Parents Picking up Children after school and Contact/Removal of Children during School Hours
  • Pg 12- Parental Access to School Documents
  • Pg 13 - Parental Involvement in School Activities
  • Pg 14 - Dealing with People other than Parents
  • Pg 15 - AVOs and other types of Court Orders that may Regulate Relationships between Parents, Students and other people
  • Pg 16 - What to do if Parents Deliberately Breach Court Orders
  • Pg 17 - Recovery Orders and Location Orders
  • Pg 18 - Requests that Staff give Evidence in Family Law Proceedings

PDFFamily Law Guidelines(PDF 354Kb)

 

Topic 2: Administering Prescribed Medications to Students in DET Schools

Here are links to DET medical permission forms for parent giving consent for staff to administer medications. 

Anaphylaxishttps://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/inprincipal/assets/common_media/20060224/anaphylaxis.pdf

Prescribed Medication
Letter to parents confirming arrangements for administration of prescribed medication
https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/languagesupport/presmeds/ltradmin/english.pdf

Administering Prescribed Medication at School http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/studentsupport/studenthealth/individualstud/adminmedicine/index.php 

Letter to parents requesting completion of Request for support at school of a student's health conditionhttps://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/languagesupport/presmeds/documents/english.pdf

SAMPLE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH & EMERGENCY CARE ACTION PLAN

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/regions/hunter_ccoast/stusupport/stuservices/studenthealth/downloads/health1.doc