Professional standards for primary school principals

Understanding school finances

This guide has information on funding sources, keeping accounts, preparing budgets, and reporting school finances.

Education and the law

General guidance on a range of legal issues for schools.

Care of children

Can social workers come to the school to interview or remove a child?

There are a number of occasions on which a social worker from Oranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children is authorised by the courts to interview or remove a child.

Care of children

What are schools’ responsibilities to report suspected abuse, ill treatment or neglect to Oranga Tamariki or the Police?

Health and safety legislation

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 encourages a proactive approach to keeping people safe from harm. 

The key emphasis is that everyone in the workplace is responsible for health and safety. A failure to put appropriate systems in place to identify potential harm and work collaboratively to keep people safe may lead to prosecution and penalties. 

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