❓ Hon Adele Farina asks about counselling rooms and chaplaincy services in South West schools. The Minister for Education details the availability of these services, funding arrangements, and school autonomy in accessing them.
AnsweredQoN 2830Legislative Council
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(1) Which schools in the South West region (electoral district) do not have counselling rooms? (2) Which schools in the South West region (electoral district) do not provide chaplain services?
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Answered
22 April 2015
Responded by
Minister for Education
Response time
43 days
(1) All public secondary schools in the South West region have the capacity to use existing facilities as counselling rooms. All public secondary schools, apart from Harvey Senior High School and Bridgetown High School, have purpose-built student services facilities. Primary and district high schools are not provided with purpose-built student services facilities, but may use existing facilities where available as counselling rooms.
(2) Public Schools do not employ Chaplains directly, they are employed by external service providers. All public schools have access to Chaplaincy Services, through State-funded agreements with YouthCARE. The decision as to whether a school accesses these services is made by individual schools.
The State Government contributes funding of $5.68 million a year to YouthCARE to provide chaplaincy services for public schools. Services include Support Chaplains who work with a cluster of schools and provide their services to each school on a visitation basis, and Relief Chaplains and Pastoral Critical Incident Response Chaplains who provide support to schools and their communities in times of emergency or major incidents.
The State Government has also committed funding of over $9.2 million in 2015 and 2016 for public schools for In-School Chaplains.
All 500 public schools that identified a need and submitted either an individual or joint application for National School Chaplaincy Programme will receive funding through either the State or Commonwealth program.
Please refer to the Tabled Paper [ ] for a list of schools in the South West electoral region that receiving funding through the Commonwealth's National School Chaplaincy Programme for 2015-16 or the In School State Funded Chaplaincy Program for 2015-2016.
Principals of public schools have the flexibility to determine the right programs and resources for their students and school communities, and those schools that did not apply for In School Chaplaincy funding have the choice to access chaplaincy services through the agreements with YouthCARE and/or can choose to fund additional chaplaincy services using their own resources.
(2) Public Schools do not employ Chaplains directly, they are employed by external service providers. All public schools have access to Chaplaincy Services, through State-funded agreements with YouthCARE. The decision as to whether a school accesses these services is made by individual schools.
The State Government contributes funding of $5.68 million a year to YouthCARE to provide chaplaincy services for public schools. Services include Support Chaplains who work with a cluster of schools and provide their services to each school on a visitation basis, and Relief Chaplains and Pastoral Critical Incident Response Chaplains who provide support to schools and their communities in times of emergency or major incidents.
The State Government has also committed funding of over $9.2 million in 2015 and 2016 for public schools for In-School Chaplains.
All 500 public schools that identified a need and submitted either an individual or joint application for National School Chaplaincy Programme will receive funding through either the State or Commonwealth program.
Please refer to the Tabled Paper [ ] for a list of schools in the South West electoral region that receiving funding through the Commonwealth's National School Chaplaincy Programme for 2015-16 or the In School State Funded Chaplaincy Program for 2015-2016.
Principals of public schools have the flexibility to determine the right programs and resources for their students and school communities, and those schools that did not apply for In School Chaplaincy funding have the choice to access chaplaincy services through the agreements with YouthCARE and/or can choose to fund additional chaplaincy services using their own resources.
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