Date | 17 October 2024 |
Time | 12.00pm-2.45pm AEDT |
Format | Live Online & Recorded - recording available for viewing until 17 November 2024 |
Pricing | Pricing: $255 Price includes GST |
Professional Development Hours | Addresses 7.2 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers |
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Program
12.00 LawSense Welcome
12.05 Chairperson’s Remarks
12.10 Legal Obligations Update and Case Studies: Understanding How the Law Has Been Applied and Learnings from School Experiences
Outline of Current Legal Rights and Obligations
- Outlining a School’s legal obligations to transgender or gender-fluid students
- duty of care
- state and federal anti-discrimination laws
- conversion therapy laws
- privacy and health records
- mandatory reporting
Implementing Exceptions to a School’s Legal Obligations
- religious exceptions – implementing current law and understanding the implications of potential changes
- examining sport and other exceptions
Enrolment and Single Sex Schools
- Examining challenges in responding to gender issues in single sex schools, including enrolling a transitioning or gender fluid student
- Understanding what evidence you may require of gender inconsistent with a birth certificate
Conversion Therapy
- Examining the extent of restrictions imposed by conversion therapy and practical impacts on schools
Dealing with Challenging Scenarios Experienced by Schools
- How to deal with challenging scenarios in a manner that discharges the school’s legal obligations to students, parents/guardians, and the wider community
- accommodating a student’s wishes regarding name changes, uniforms
- change of names – should documents be updated and if so what documents?
- conflicts between student and parent/guardian wishes
- managing use of gender-segregated facilities (e.g., toilets, change rooms, dormitories etc.) and arrangements on school camps
- accommodating students in gender specific classes in co-educational schools such as: sport; sex education; physical education; physical development; health
- school sport – navigating duties, sport rules and exceptions
- students undergoing hormone treatment
- when to seek expert advice
- Including pronouns in staff emails
Skye Rose, Practice Leader, Moores
1.10 Break
1.20 Examining Implications for Schools of Recent Litigation by Young People Transitioning and Navigating Students with a Disability
- Examining recent cases where young people transitioning have commenced proceedings against their therapists/advisors including:
- Langadinos’ case Australia
- Cass Review, Interim Report UK
- Tavistock clinic class action (UK)
- Chloe Cole Case (US)
- Understanding implications for schools:
- understanding the impacts of recent decisions on student consent
- examining to what extent your facilitation of a student’s transitioning can expose you to potential claims later on
- are you still liable even if you/ the student has been following the advice of external professionals?
- Navigating rights and obligations where the student has an intellectual impairment, disability, or is neurodiverse
- Exploring best practice policies to support student and manage emerging legal exposure
Steven Troeth, Partner, Gadens
2.20 Chairperson’s Remarks
2.25 Webinar Close