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The Department of Education are creating an outcomes framework to measure and track the educational outcomes of students with disability and are inviting students, and their parents and carers to get involved by completing an online survey. The valuable input…

HOLIDAY OFFICE CLOSURE P&C Federation will close for the holidays from Monday 20 December 2021 until Friday 7 January 2022. The office will reopen on Monday 10 January 2022. You are welcome to email us at mail@pandc.org.au or leave a…

If you have applied for government funding under the Community Building Partnership CBP2021 round in April/May this year, the wait is over. Letters of notification have been sent to applicants. You can also find out if your application has been…

The NSW Department of Education is looking for new members to provide advice on the education of students with disability as part of the Disability Strategy Reference Group. The Department is seeking involvement from recent former students and parents/carers of…

The NSW Department of Education has announced it is expanding the use of Rapid Antigen Home Testing (RAHT) to reduce the time school students and staff spend away from school if they are a close contact of a positive COVID-19…

On 24 October 2021, the Treasurer and Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning, the Hon. Sarah Mitchell MLC, announced that school banking programs will no longer be run in New South Wales schools, from 2022. As school banking programs…

P&C Federation has put together advice and information for P&C Associations to support them in complying with the Public Health Order requiring all people who work in government schools and early childhood education (ECE) sites, including employees and volunteers of P&C Associations, to have provided proof of vaccination before being…

From Monday, 8 November, all schools will operate on updated Level 3 settings for the rest of Term 4, with additional activities allowed in a COVID-safe manner: School sports allowed Inter-school sports allowed outside of school hours Assemblies and presentations…

The Department of Education has consolidated advice from different existing policies about sharing school facilities into one simplified Sharing of School Facilities policy.     The aim has been to make information about sharing school facilities easier to find and simpler to understand for…

NSW School Infrastructure has undertaken a comprehensive review of the ventilation in NSW’s 2,200+ government schools. This consisted of a state-wide review of the windows, fans and ventilation systems in government schools. NSW School Infrastructure has also prepared individual ventilation…