{"id":267,"date":"2017-06-23T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T04:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/?post_type=article&#038;p=267"},"modified":"2017-06-29T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:12:04","slug":"do-you-have-your-ducks-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/article\/do-you-have-your-ducks-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions SIG Report &#8211; Do you have your ducks in a row?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 16 May 2017, the NSW Chapter of Educate Plus held a Special Interest Group at Ascham in Sydney.\u00a0 David Ford, of Emil Ford Lawyers, presented a summary of his paper\u00a0<em>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Students<\/em>\u00a0to over 50 guests.<\/p>\n<p>The key message for schools and those who work in them related to the overarching duty of care to all their students in all area of school life and particularly for those who identify as LGBTI.\u00a0 David also explored Australian and NSW anti-discrimination legislation to demonstrate what could be unlawful discrimination in the school\u2019s enrolment processes and in its communications and dealings with LGBTI students.<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s thorough and very informative session provided the group with important \u2018takeaways\u2019 including:\u00a0\u00a0<em>be ready\u00a0<\/em>with policy and procedures for your organisation;\u00a0<em>be ready<\/em>\u00a0with trained staff who understand and are able to communicate your policy clearly and\u00a0<em>be ready<\/em>because every school will need to be . . . get your ducks in a row now!<\/p>\n<p>David Ford\u2019s full paper can be downloaded at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilford.com.au\/education-schools\/free-education-law-papers-and-resources\/\">http:\/\/www.emilford.com.au\/education-schools\/free-education-law-papers-and-resources\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Ascham for their hospitality and support with this SIG, and to Jo Hutchens and Myfanwy Stanfield\u00a0for organising another wonderful event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 16 May 2017, the NSW Chapter of Educate Plus held a Special Interest Group at Ascham in Sydney.\u00a0 David Ford, of Emil Ford Lawyers, presented a summary of his paper\u00a0Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Students\u00a0to over 50 guests. The key message for schools and those who work in them related to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-267","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}