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2) Schools work in a range of ways to assist students to build the skills, values and attitudes required to develop and maintain positive, healthy and respectful relationships. The Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL) whole school framework establishes clear, shared expectations for respectful behaviour that is explicitly taught for different school settings. All schools are also required to deliver Social and Emotional Learning approaches that form an excellent starting point from which to teach subject matter that more specifically explores gender norms, gender identity and respectful relationships.
The ACT Education Directorate supports ACT public schools in the delivery of this education, for example a centralised PBL team works with schools to develop and implement their PBL approach. This approach includes providing training and resources to schools, tailored to each school’s individual needs.
The ACT Education Directorate also promotes resources that support teachers to address topics such as respect in relationships and consent. ACT teachers may also access professional learning to increase their skills and confidence in delivering sexuality and relationship education in schools. This is available through the ACT Education Directorate and also community organisations such as Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT (SHFPACT) who provide a calendar of professional learning for teachers and related resources.
As required, the Directorate will also develop resources, training or focussed events for schools to address needs as they arise. For example, following legislative changes relating to non consensual capturing and distribution of intimate images, a factsheet and information were provided to schools to assist teaching and learning in this area. In 2019 the Directorate coordinated an International Women’s Day event to empower students and their teachers to work with their school communities to promote issues such as gender equality and respectful behaviour. This event ran again on 6 March 2020.
The Education Directorate, through its school psychology service, Network Student Engagement Teams and Student Wellbeing policy support, also assists schools to support individual students, families and wider school communities to address sexist and/ or disrespectful behaviour.
3) The Education Directorate does not collate information centrally about the resources and external organisations that schools individually engage with to facilitate respectful relationships education. At this point in time, 59 schools have commenced implementation of the PBL framework.
4) Currently, schools and providers manage their own evaluations, as such this information is not held centrally. At a population level, the National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS) is the most comprehensive data set available to understand violence against women, community attitudes towards it, what influences these attitudes and if there has been a change over time.
Environment—platypus population
(Question No 2908)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, upon notice, on 14 February 2020:
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