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❓ Mrs. Hayden questions the Minister for Emergency Services regarding fire compliance in schools located in fire-prone areas, including the number of non-compliant schools, expansion limitations due to non-compliance, upgrade plans, and timelines. The Minister redirects the questions to the Minister for Education and Training.

AnsweredQoN 5453Legislative Assembly

Asked

17 September 2019

Member

Mrs A.K. Hayden

Portfolio

Emergency Services; Corrective Services

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Can the Minister for Emergency Services provide the following information: (a) How many schools in fire prone areas are not fire compliant; (b) How many schools are not able to develop or expand due to not having current compliance; (c) Can you please list the schools by electorate; (d) Is there a plan to upgrade these schools to ensure they are fire compliant by current standards; (e) If so, can you please advise of the delivery of this plan by schools and dates; and (f) If not, why not?

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Answered

17 October 2019

Responded by

Minister for Emergency Services; Corrective Services

Response time

8 days

(a-f) The Department of Fire and Emergency Services provides an advisory service to the Department of Education (DoE) under a Memorandum of Understanding. The advice provided relates to identifying bushfire risk to schools located in bushfire prone areas and enables the DoE to co-ordinate bushfire risk management activities to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from the threat of bushfire for school sites.
With respect to the questions on specific school sites, these should be directed to the Minister for Education and Training.

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