Page 586 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 2019
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Questions without notice
Schools—violence
MR COE: My question is to the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development. Minister, why is data relating to school-based violence kept only at a school level and not collated and monitored by the directorate?
MS BERRY: It is not kept only at the school level. There is a lot of data that is collected at the school level and also within the Education Directorate. Some of that is paper based; some of that is via Riskman. Bringing that all together is the challenge for circumstances around violence in schools.
MR COE: Minister, what data types are collected, collated and/or monitored centrally?
MS BERRY: I have just referenced two: Riskman and data at paper base level for individual students’ circumstances at school.
MR WALL: Minister, what steps are in place to ensure compliance with reporting in schools?
MS BERRY: Recording in schools for what?
MR WALL: Sorry, I asked: what steps—policies—are in place to ensure compliance with reporting in schools into those management systems?
MS BERRY: We are just transitioning, as I spoke about in detail, to a new system in our schools, the SAS system. That will gather all of the information that we need in one place. That is in a transition period now. It has been transitioning since 2017. Once that process is complete, we will have all of the data that is being currently—
Mr Wall: Point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Resume you seat. Point of order?
Mr Wall: It is a point of order on relevance. The question was specifically: what policies or procedures are in place. I am aware that there are systems there but certainly part of the issue that has been raised is that there is a lack of reporting of these statistics.
MADAM SPEAKER: To that point in the remaining time that you have, minister.
MS BERRY: Madam Speaker, I said that we are going through a transition period now of moving data collection on to a new system.
Schools—safe and supportive schools program
MR WALL: My question is to the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development. Minister, children at a Tuggeranong primary school received a survey
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