Policy Statement on Establishing Regulation in a Non Governmental School
Background
Persons who work in the State Education Department have regulations established through the Education Act. These regulations, in part establish the relationship between parents and the Education Department.
It should be noted that only a few of these regulations affect teachers in the non-governmental sector.
In the non-governmental sector parents contract to non-governmental schools for the education of their children.
Therefore, much of the relationship between parent and staff is by contract between the School Authority and the parent.
There is very often, little regulation established by the non-governmental School Authority to govern the operation of the school and particularly the relationship of the parent to the school and its staff.
Establishment of Regulation
The School Authority has the authority (and the responsibility) to establish regulations within the school.
Those regulations must be framed within those legislative frameworks which do regulate a non-governmental school's operation (eg. The Teacher Registration Act requires registered teachers to be employed and only registered teachers to provide classroom instruction.)
Most non-governmental schools derive regulations from aschool mission statement or set of goals.
Most regulations would then take the form of policy statements to guide staff in their development of day-to-day procedures.
Statement of Policy Regulation
It would be consistent with the contexts outlined above for the School Authority to establish various policies for the conduct of the school's activities.
Such policies should establish a set of procedures (regulations) to guide the actions of staff and the decisions made by the School Authority.
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