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COMMITTEE'S REPORT

The Bill and Explanatory Notes are available here: 

• Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2012
• Explanatory notes

This Bill was passed in the Legislative Assembly on 14 November 2012. Click here to view the Hansard transcript of the Second Reading Debate. 

Government response - Report No. 11 - Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2012 - here. 

ABOUT THE BILL

On 21 August 2012 the Minister for Education, Training and Employment, the Hon John-Paul Langbroek MP, introduced the Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2012 into the Queensland Parliament. Subsequently, Parliament referred the Bill to the Education and Innovation Committee for detailed consideration.

The Committee is due to report back to the Parliament by 29 October 2012.

The Bill would amend legislation to:

• enable State Schools of Distance Education to deliver an e-Kindy program to eligible children
• allow Queensland to adopt new National Professional Standards for teachers
• ensure that teachers who fail to report likely future sexual abuse of a student will not be subject to criminal sanctions
• replace the requirement that students permanently excluded from state schools receive annual written notice that they may make a submission to have the exclusion revoked, with advice given at the time of exclusion and online.

Submissions

Submissions to the Bill closed on Monday 24 September 2012.

A guide to making submissions is available here: Submission Guidelines.

TIMELINE

Public Briefing - 12 September 2012. The Department of Education, Training and Employment briefed the Committee on aspects of this Bill on Wednesday 12 September 2012. A transcript of the briefing is available here. 

Public Hearing - 12 October 2012. The Committee held a public hearing on Friday 12 October 2012. A copy of the transcript of the hearing is available here.