Services Provided

• Learning Program              

• Gender Equity

• Behaviour

• Special Education

• Learning Support

• Anti Discrimination

• Aboriginal Education

• Home school liaison

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 Student Services/Equity 

Roll Checking

Jon Oxenbridge fills the Home School Liaison role and can (and does) check rolls and OASIS records to ensure proper records are being kept.

On request, Jon  can run staff meeting  workshops on the reasons for good roll marking and the importance of accuracy and follow up.

The HSL program will monitor the implementation of operation  Roll Call which requires schools to issue leave passes for students and allows police to question students who are in public places during school hours. 

Jon has been trialling the effect of patrolling town centres with police and/or the Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer (Toni Widders) to interview young people of compulsory school age with a view to returning them to school or their homes.

Interagency Meetings

Where social issues may be affecting school attendance, it is useful to have a whole of government approach. District Office personnel have regular interagency meetings with other government departments to coordinate responses to community problems including truancy.

Home Visits

Jon  (sometimes with Aboriginal Education Assistants or the ACLO ( Toni  Widders) will often make visits to the homes of students with poor attendance to facilitate a successful return to school.

Alternative (Bridging) Programs

From time to time (resources permitting) the Home School Liaison Officers will run special programs for reluctant school attendees with a view to building on successes to achieve fulltime regular attendance.

Conciliation Conferences

Where an initial 10-week intervention has proved unsuccessful, a move to a formal conciliation Conference may be convened by the District Student Services & Equity Coordinator on the recommendation of a principal or HSLO. Conciliation Conferences at the last step before unsuccessful closure or referral to Legal Branch for possible prosecution.

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