❓ The Minister for Education and Training outlines developments in strengthening the Department's Complaints Management Unit, including key appointments and a focus on best practice and child protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING - COMPLAINTS MANAGEMENT UNIT
Will the minister advise the house of developments in the strengthening of the complaints management unit in the Department of Education and Training? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
Will the minister advise the house of developments in the strengthening of the complaints management unit in the Department of Education and Training? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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Mr President - Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: Mr President - Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Mr President - Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: Mr President - Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Mr President - Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon Norman Moore : Could you tell us how many people are working in there? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I have already answered that question. As of yesterday the number was seven. I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
I thank Hon Ed Dermer for that very good question, because there has clearly been a lot of interest in this chamber - Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon Simon O’Brien : It was supposed to be asked by Hon Graham Giffard but he passed it over to Hon Ed Dermer to ask. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : Boy, does it not get them excited! First, on 8 November I announced the appointment of Justice Neville Owen to oversee the major changes in the department’s complaints management unit. His Honour Justice Owen is the senior judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has completed a two-year royal commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group. He comes to us with a very strong interest in education, given that he has been the chair of the governing body of three different secondary schools and is the chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. I have also appointed three key people to help bolster the complaints management unit. Firstly, Detective Inspector Trevor Porter will head the new professional standards directorate as the acting executive director reporting to the acting director general, Sharyn O’Neill. He has been a policeman for 30 years and has extensive experience in areas such as internal affairs, ethics and standards, managing discipline, tracking misconduct and standards development. I am also advised that Professor Lance Twomey, who would be known to one and all as the former vice-chancellor of Curtin University, will investigate best practice complaints models and methodologies, both nationally and internationally. Professor Twomey comes strongly recommended. He will undertake that work for us. The police commissioner has also agreed to a member of the child protection squad being seconded to the department to strengthen the work in the specific area of dealing with sexual contact between staff and students. The third person who will be involved is Senior Sergeant Gordon Fairman, who has been with the WA Police for 19 years and is currently the state coordinator of the child protection and family violence unit. I am pleased to announce that all these people will play a very active and critical part in the complaints management unit, ensuring that we end up with a complaints management unit that is world’s best practice and is targeted at achieving minimum risk or no risk to students within the education system. I thank all those people for wanting to be part of the reforms. I give a commitment to this place that the Department of Education and Training will continue to work very, very closely with the CCC to make sure that every one of those six recommendations will be fully implemented.
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Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.