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SUMMARY:Education Legal Issues
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will be of interest to all families raising a child with a disability, whether in mainstream or special school environments. Come along and learn about enrolment rights, decision processes around special education, processes around an ORS funding decline, requests to parents for teacher aide funding contributions, requests to parents for funding for student support at extra-curricular camps and activities, stand-downs, use of restraint, and much more.\nWho Should Attend:\nThe parents of disabled students who are concerned with the support entitlement for their child in New Zealand Schools.  This seminar explores the following topics:\n\nSection 37 access to Special School, why is this legally required?\nSection 47 appeals to ORS decline\nStand downs – under what conditions are they fair\nClarifying responsibility for the student’s safety and welfare during travel between school and home\nPhysical aggression and use of restraint\nIssue of school requests for funding contribution from parents (to help pay for teacher aide or resources)\nSchool camps and extra-curricular activities – requests from the school that parents pay/provide the support person to accompany that student.\nPlus, a range of other education legal issues\n\n
URL:https://disabilityconnect.org.nz/events/education-legal-issues/
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