Page 1503 - Week 04 - Thursday, 4 April 2019
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The reason for an EDU staff member resigning from the Education Directorate is not recorded systematically.
The overall rate of staff separation is 6.5% from the 2016/2017 financial year and 5.5% for the 2017/2018 financial year.
The rate of teacher separation is 7.1% from the 2016/2017 financial year and 4.8% for the 2017/2018 financial year.
Schools—bullying
Ms Berry (in reply to a supplementary question by Ms Lee on Thursday, 14 February 2019):
All ACT public schools experience regular changes in enrolment numbers, with families moving for a variety of reasons such as moving house, moving interstate, accepting a place at a non-government school, accessing specialist programs at another government school, and more.
Families who want to transfer their child to another government school within the ACT are only required to submit a new Application to Enrol in an ACT Public School form for their preferred school. Each application is then considered against enrolment criteria.
Children leaving the preschool are not included because preschool is not a compulsory stage of schooling and about 20 per cent of ACT preschool students leave at the end of preschool. Children leaving year 6 are not included because most of this year group leave to start high school.
Schools—violence
Ms Berry (in reply to a question by Mr Milligan on Thursday, 21 February 2019):
Lockdowns occur infrequently in ACT public schools. Lock downs that are part of a critical incident are reported to the Directorate. Schools may use lockdowns for short periods of time to respond to individual short term (non-critical events) such as a response to a student who is having difficulty regulating – these lock downs are not expected to be reported to the Directorate.
The number of lockdown incidents reported by schools to the Directorate is relatively low, with 12 lockdowns reported in 11 schools (of 88 in total), over 23 school weeks between 1 July 2018 and 14 February 2019. This number does not include emergency drills.
In a school context, lockdowns are precautionary measures that are applied in response to an immediate risk, either perceived or real, and involve the sealing of one or more areas in a school to contain the risk.
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