Part One: Legal options and duties
These Guidelines provide information for principals and boards of trustees about their legal options and duties on stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions
In this section
- About these guidelines
- These guidelines help principals and boards of trustees by: describing the processes for stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions; providing information about the relevant legislation, and; listing contact information for further advice
- Overview: Being fair and flexible
- When dealing with serious misbehaviour or serious risks to student safety you must be fair and flexible
- Investigation
- Information about the process for investigating and interviewing students
- Principal's role
- Information about the role of the principal including making a decision to stand-down or suspend a student and their obligations during a stand-down or suspension
- Role of the board
- Information about the role of the board following a principal's decision to stand-down or suspend a student including the board's authority, options, how to hold a meeting, making and recording a decision and communicating the decision
- Re-enrolment of excluded or expelled student
- Information about the role of the Ministry of Education and the board and the re-enrolment of an excluded or expelled student
- Appendices
- The appendices include an outline of the Education Act 1989 and the Education (Stand-down, Suspension, Exclusion and Expulsion) Rules 1999, sample incident report and information pamphlets for parents