Page 137 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 13 February 2019
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MS BERRY: Yes. School principals and school communities would be able to access information on school suspensions and be provided that information should it be required. If a school principal or school community believes that a child needs to be removed from a school then they would get in touch with the director-general and a decision would be made on the process forward from there.
MS LEE: Minister, what options are available to an expelled student, their parent or carer under the ACT education system?
MS BERRY: There are a number of options available. Schools, working with their school communities—parents, families and children—work out different ways to approach violence in schools and situations where students might need extra support, where students who have been violent need to be suspended or expelled from schools on occasion.
I think the main process that schools are concentrating on is to try to build school communities that are positive so that they are less likely to have violent situations occur.
Mr Coe: Point of order.
MS BERRY: I can get some information back to the Assembly on—
MADAM SPEAKER: Resume your seat, please. Point of order.
Mr Coe: It is on relevance. Ms Lee’s question was specifically about after a student had been expelled so, really, what pathways or options are available at that point, not leading up to that point.
MADAM SPEAKER: Minister.
MS BERRY: Yes, I can get some more information on that. I do not think it would be for a particular instance but generally around what occurs after a student has been expelled. I will try to get some more information on that and provide that to Ms Lee.
Public housing—thermal performance
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the minister for housing. Minister, during the recent heatwave, many public housing tenants complained to me about dangerously hot temperatures inside their homes, at least up to 43 degrees. Minister, what is the government doing to support tenants in their dwellings during heatwaves?
MS BERRY: The heatwave conditions in the ACT recently were very hot, the hottest that the ACT has ever experienced. ACT Housing has a program of visits, phone calls and contacts with housing tenants who might be more vulnerable or susceptible to injury or even, unfortunately and sadly, death in conditions where they experience extreme heat. Every one of those people is contacted to make sure that they have all the support that they need if they need it, that they have fans, that they are looking
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