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❓ A parliamentary question regarding the use of the Safe Schools program and health education resources in Western Australian public secondary schools, focusing on curriculum development and resource selection flexibility.

AnsweredQoN 2065Legislative Council

Asked

2 April 2019

Member

Hon Nick Goiran

Portfolio

Education and Training

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I refer to the Government’s commitment to provide funding to allow public secondary schools to choose to use the Safe Schools program that meets their school’s needs, and I ask: (a) has the Western Australian School Curriculum and Standards Authority developed syllabuses that provide information at each year level to support teachers to plan and develop health education learning and teaching experiences; (b) if yes to (a), will you table the documents recording those developed syllabuses; (c) are schools encouraged to access evidence based resources and programme to help promote respectful and positive relationships; (d) further to (c), do schools have the flexibility to choose resources that suit the context of their teaching and learning programs; and (e) further to (c) and (d), what is the list of evidence based resources that schools are recommended to choose from?

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Answered

14 May 2019

Responded by

Minister for Education and Training

Response time

9 days

Answer
(a) Yes.
(b) Yes. [Refer to Tabled Paper No ].
(c) Schools are expected to consider the evidence base behind all resources they choose to use to support the implementation of the Health education curriculum.
(d) Yes.
(e) There is no endorsed list of evidence-based health education resources for schools.

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