Teachers and the Law

The Department of Education and Training and the NSW Teachers Federation jointly organised a "Teachers and the Law Conference" that was held at the Masonic Centre in Sydney on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 October 2005. The conference was targeted at teachers (including head teachers, principals and TAFE campus management) in government schools and NSW TAFE. The program was comprised of presentations by external speakers and officers of both the DET and the Federation dealing with a range of topics impacting on government schools and TAFE including the changing industrial environment, duty of care, dealing with difficult people, workers compensation, procedural fairness, workplace bullying, FOI and a review of privacy cases involving DET.

NSW Attorney General, Robert Debus MP, and NSW Solicitor General, Michael Sexton SC, addressed the conference.

Approximately 300 teachers attended the conference.