The Education and Workforce Committee is calling for submissions on the Education and Training Amendment Bill. This bill seeks to make amendments to the Education and Training Act 2020 including:

· clarifying safety checking processes for children’s workers and school employees

· extending the ban on charging trainees a compulsory student services fee by one year

· clarifying that only people holding a teaching position can use physical restraint

· amending certain other provisions in regard to rules around intervention by the Secretary for Education and regulation-making powers around licensing of service providers.

It also aims to make some technical changes to the Act and regulations to ensure consistency. These would include:

· clarifying the early childhood education regulation-making powers in section 636

· clarifying the agencies to which any ministerial statement of expectations could apply

Tell the Education and Workforce Committee what you think

Make a submission on the bill by midnight on 25 June 2021.

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