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Teaching and learning

  • Aboriginal education
  • Aboriginal education procedures
  • Animal welfare - schools
  • Controversial issues in schools
  • Curriculum planning and programming, assessing and reporting to parents K-12
  • Curriculum policy standards
  • High potential and gifted education
  • High potential and gifted education standards
  • Inclusive education for students with disability
  • Library procedures
  • Multicultural education
  • Multicultural education procedures
  • Other activities of a religious nature in schools
  • Personalised learning and support procedures
  • Religious education and special education in ethics
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Student support and management

  • Administration of medication procedures
  • Anaphylaxis and allergy management procedures
  • Child protection - responding to and reporting students at risk of harm
  • Child protection - responding to and reporting students at risk of harm procedures
  • Detention and time-out procedures
  • Drugs in schools
  • Enrolment in NSW public preschools procedures
  • Enrolment in distance education procedures
  • Enrolment of temporary residents procedures
  • Exemption from school procedure
  • Health support planning and student safety procedures
  • Healthy eating procedures
  • School attendance
  • School behaviour support and management plan
  • Selective high schools and opportunity class placement procedures
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Communication and community engagement

  • Anti-racism
  • Anti-racism procedures
  • Community complaint procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • School names, mottos and logos
  • Social media
  • Social media procedures

People

  • Accreditation procedures
  • Beginning teacher support entitlement
  • Change of personal information procedures
  • ClassCover procedures
  • Code of ethics and conduct
  • Community language allowance scheme
  • Confirmation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Data breach
  • Deferred salary scheme
  • Determining the mix in NSW public schools
  • Discrimination standards
  • Drugs and alcohol in the workplace
  • Education support mobility and professional development
  • Education support staff recruitment
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Asset and facility management

  • Asset management
  • Demountable accommodation – retention and provision
  • Educational provision – change in future school operation procedures
  • Maintenance and repair callout procedures
  • Project proposals for various works on school sites
  • Responding to planning notifications
  • Sharing of school facilities
  • Sharing of school facilities procedures

Technology

  • Cyber security
  • Cyber security procedures
  • Digital devices and online services for students
  • Digital devices and online services for students procedures
  • Digital devices, services and information – staff use
  • Digital devices, services and information – staff use procedures
  • Student use of mobile phones in schools
  • Student use of mobile phones in schools procedures
  • Technology in schools
  • Technology in schools procedures

Finance

  • Accounting standards - leases
  • Accounting standards - revenue
  • Accounting standards - service concession arrangements
  • Annual financial statements
  • Carry forward (schools) procedure
  • Commercial arrangements, sponsorship and donations
  • Commercial arrangements, sponsorship and donations procedures
  • Financial management
  • Financial management (schools) procedures
  • Financial management – capitalisation
  • Procurement
  • Purchasing and procurement procedures
  • Purchasing cards (PCard)
  • Repurpose funds
  • Vendor payment
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School management

  • Assisted school travel program
  • Business services
  • Emergency management
  • Enrolment in Kindergarten to Year 12 procedures
  • Enrolment of students
  • Excursions and variations of routine
  • First aid
  • Incident notification and response
  • Motor vehicle procedures
  • Overseas students, visitors and partnerships
  • Professional learning for teachers and school staff
  • Records management procedures
  • Recovery at work – Return to Work Program
  • School development days
  • School excellence
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Enterprise management

  • Business services
  • Emergency management
  • Enterprise data standards
  • Enterprise management
  • Enterprise risk management framework
  • Evaluation
  • First aid
  • Fraud and corruption control
  • Incident notification and response
  • Legislative compliance
  • Motor vehicle procedures
  • Policy governance
  • Policy governance procedures
  • Records management procedures
  • Recovery at work – Return to Work Program
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Policy packs

Start of the school year

Direction and guidance for staff getting ready for the beginning of the school year (staff only)

Community consultation

Guidance for situations when schools must consult with the community (staff only)

Documents requiring regular review

List of documents and actions that require regular update and review (staff only)

Be assurance ready

Policy-specific tasks that need to be completed by the principal or delegate to meet compliance requirements assessed through assurance (staff only)

Recently updated documents

Title
Document type
Change
Publication date
Title Integration Funding Support Staff only
Document type Policy procedure
Change description Updated to replace links to mandatory forms and align with the release of the new Access Request system, remove reference to STEP funding, remove Informal Advice form, add an example under section 5.3 for monitor, transfer or return funding, minor word changes for clarification.
Publication date 14/10/2026
Title Detention and time-out procedures
Document type Policy procedure
Change description Updated to replace the Behaviour code for students with the Student code of conduct. Updated definition for behaviour of concern and requirements for School behaviour support and management plan.
Publication date 09/10/2026
Title School behaviour support and management plan
Document type Policy procedure
Change description Updated definitions section and added requirements to align practices to NSW Anti-bullying framework, Student code of conduct and Anti-racism policy. Updated response to incident requirements and clarified expectations for review of plan.
Publication date 09/10/2026
Title Student behaviour
Document type Policy statement
Change description Updated to replace Behaviour code for students with Student code of conduct and clarified definitions.
Publication date 09/10/2026
Title Student code of conduct
Document type Policy procedure
Change description Updated to replace the Behaviour Code for Students to simplify and reduce language, supporting access and understanding of a student audience.
Publication date 09/10/2026
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Last modified date
07/10/2026
Business unit contact email
tls.correspondence@det.nsw.edu.au
Executive director
Suzette Gay
Executive director’s business unit
Operations Group
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