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(5) The Disability Reform Council has agreed to start work on the development of a national disability framework to replace the National Disability Strategy which expires in 2020. The Council has agreed to an approach, milestones and timeframes for developing a new national disability framework and supporting action plan for beyond-2020. Further announcements will be made by agreement of Council members.
Education Directorate—workplace culture
(Question No 2280)
Mr Coe asked the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development, upon notice, on 15 February 2019:
(1) Have any incidents of self-harm or suicide reported by staff in the Education Directorate been linked or related to bullying or cultural problems within the directorate during each of the last five financial years; if so, what was the (a) general type of incident, (b) general category of employee, (c) financial year it occurred, (d) directorate it occurred in, (e) actions undertaken by the Minister in response to the report and (f) actions undertaken by the relevant directorate in response to the report.
(2) Have any incidents of self-harm or suicide reported by students or about students in each area for which the Minister is responsible been linked or related to bullying or cultural problems within the directorate during each of the last five financial years; if so, what was the (a) general type of incident, (b) financial year it occurred, (c) directorate it occurred in, (d) actions undertaken by the Minister in response to the report and (e) actions undertaken by the relevant directorate in response to the report.
Ms Berry: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The Education Directorate is not aware of any incidents of staff self-harm or suicide linked to or related to bullying or cultural problems over the past five years.
(2) Given the complexity of presentation associated with bullying and self-harm or suicide, causation data is not captured.
a. Information collected by school psychologists are Health Care records which are governed by privacy legislation and not recorded centrally. Student counselling records are held in secure files at the school level.
b. Refer to the answer above.
c. Refer to the answer above.
d. Refer to the answer above.
e. Refer to the answer above.
Government—staff wellbeing
(Question No 2281)
Mr Coe asked the Minister for Mental Health, upon notice, on 15 February 2019:
(1) Have any incidents of self-harm or suicide reported by staff in each area for which the Minister is responsible been linked or related to bullying or cultural problems within
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