Page 1504 - Week 04 - Thursday, 4 April 2019
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The decision to lock down a school is made by the principal or their delegate and is based on a range of factors including the nature of the risk, the location of the risk and the likely impact on the school. The principal may decide to lock down the school as a precaution, and if the risk does not eventuate, they will cease the lock down and return to normal operation.
Principals are responsible for ensuring the immediate safety of all people on site. The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 requires schools to regularly test emergency procedures and ACT public schools undertake emergency drills including at least one lock down drill each year.
Schools—violence
Ms Berry (in reply to a question and a supplementary question by Miss C Burch on Thursday, 21 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.
ACT Emergency Services Agency—consultation
Mr Gentleman (in reply to a question and a supplementary question by Mrs Jones on Wednesday, 20 March 2019):
The Emergency Services Operational Review Group (ESORG) is a forum for the review of operational arrangements between ACT Fire & Rescue, ACT Rural Fire Service and ACT State Emergency Service. This review is scheduled for the end of bushfire season to benefit from operational outcomes of the season. The ESORG meeting scheduled for March was cancelled due to the bushfire period being extended.
The meeting was cancelled on Thursday, 7 March 2019, and the ESA has a record of this occurring. However, when it became apparent that there was a technical difficulty in cancelling the meeting (it was still appearing in some member’s diaries), an email was sent out to confirm the cancellation on Wednesday 13 March 2019.
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