What we do

P&C Federation is involved in a wide range of services for its members. Some of its key activities include:

• Providing affiliates with public liability insurance and a range of other insurance policies for meetings, fundraising events and their other activities
• Providing free advice about local problems, correct meeting procedure, association management, constitutions, by-laws, the rights of parents and students, industrial and legal matters, incorporation, authority to fundraise and what P&Cs need to do to comply with the GST.
• Expert publications like the Handbook for P&C Associations and the revised Canteen Management Manual.
• Parent and Citizen, a quarterly journal, which is distributed in multiple copies to all members and covers topical issues relevant to NSW parents.
• Democratically determining Federation policy at its Annual Conference to which all member P&C associations and district councils are entitled to send delegates.
• Implementation of policy and action items between annual conferences coordinated by the Council of the Federation, which includes the office bearers and state councillors which are elected by the delegates attending annual conference.
• Visits to affiliated associations by office bearers and state councillors.
• Lobbying the Department of Education and Training and the New South Wales Government, among other authorities, in the interests of children, the schools they attend, and schools and public education in general.