❓ A parliamentary question addresses whether volunteer parents can bring younger children to kindergarten/pre-primary and if public liability insurance covers siblings. The Minister clarifies the policy encourages parental involvement and insurance covers negligence by the department, but not parental negligence.
AnsweredQoN 1319Legislative Council
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PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE, KINDERGARTEN AND PREPRIMARY CLASSES, VOLUNTEER HELPERS
Traditionally, parents who volunteer to assist teachers during kindergarten and preprimary school sessions on site have been encouraged to take other younger children with them. (1) Will the minister inform the Parliament whether parents who attend kindergarten and preprimary classes on site as volunteer helpers may be accompanied by other younger children such as babies? (2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD
Traditionally, parents who volunteer to assist teachers during kindergarten and preprimary school sessions on site have been encouraged to take other younger children with them. (1) Will the minister inform the Parliament whether parents who attend kindergarten and preprimary classes on site as volunteer helpers may be accompanied by other younger children such as babies? (2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(1) Will the minister inform the Parliament whether parents who attend kindergarten and preprimary classes on site as volunteer helpers may be accompanied by other younger children such as babies? (2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(1) Will the minister inform the Parliament whether parents who attend kindergarten and preprimary classes on site as volunteer helpers may be accompanied by other younger children such as babies? (2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(2) Do the public liability insurance policies taken out by government schools preclude cover for those siblings? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(1) In keeping with the Department of Education’s ethos of working closely with the community, schools are encouraged to welcome volunteer parents in all years. Teachers negotiate with parents in regard to siblings, taking into account the learning program being conducted at the time and their duty of care. (2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
(2) The Department of Education’s public liability insurance covers any authorised visitor, including siblings, to the school site for acts of negligence on the part of the department. The department’s insurance does not cover the sibling for the parents’ own personal responsibilities - for example, a parent’s not supervising a child and, as a result, the child being injured and the cause not due to the department’s negligence.
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