to assess applicants’ suitability for employment or volunteering Primary purposes of collecting information about students and their families to administer employment or volunteer placement Our school collects information about students and their for insurance purposes, including public liability families when necessary to: and WorkCover educate students to fulfil various legal obligations, including support students’ social and emotional wellbeing, employment and contractual obligations, and health occupational health and safety law and to investigate incidents fulfil legal requirements, including to: to respond to legal claims against our school/the take reasonable steps to reduce the risk Department. of reasonably foreseeable harm to students, staff and visitors (duty of care) make reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities Our school uses or discloses information consistent with (antidiscrimination law) Victorian privacy law, as follows: provide a safe and secure workplace (occupational health and safety law) for a primary purpose as defined above – enable our school to: for a related secondary purpose that is reasonably to be expected for example, to – communicate with parents about enable the school council to fulfil its objectives, students’ schooling matters and functions and powers celebrate the efforts and achievements of students with notice and/or consent including consent – provided on enrolment and other forms maintain the good order and management of our school when necessary to lessen or prevent a serious enable the Department to: threat to: a person’s life, health, safety or welfare ensure the effective management, the public’s health, safety or welfare resourcing and administration of our school when required or authorised by law including – as a result of our duty of care, anti-discrimination fulfil statutory functions and duties law, occupational health and safety law, reporting plan, fund, monitor, regulate and obligations to agencies such as Department of Health and Human Services and complying with evaluate the Department’s policies, tribunal or court orders, subpoenas or Victoria services and functions Police warrants comply with reporting requirements to investigate or report unlawful activity, or when investigate incidents in schools and/or reasonably necessary for a specified law respond to any legal claims against the enforcement purpose, including the prevention or Department, including any of its schools. investigation of a criminal offence or seriously improper conduct, by or on behalf of a law Primary purposes of collecting information about enforcement agency others Our school collects information staff, volunteers and for Department research or school statistics job applicants: purposes
Primary purposes of collecting information about students and their families Our school collects information about students and their families when necessary to: educate students support students’ social and emotional wellbeing, and health fulfil legal requirements, including to: take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of reasonably foreseeable harm to students, staff and visitors (duty of care) make reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities (antidiscrimination law) provide a safe and secure workplace (occupational health and safety law) enable our school to: communicate with parents about students’ schooling matters and celebrate the efforts and achievements of students maintain the good order and management of our school enable the Department to: ensure the effective management, resourcing and administration of our school fulfil statutory functions and duties plan, fund, monitor, regulate and evaluate the Department’s policies, services and functions comply with reporting requirements investigate incidents in schools and/or respond to any legal claims against the Department, including any of its schools. Primary purposes of collecting information about others Our school collects information staff, volunteers and job applicants: to assess applicants’ suitability for employment or volunteering to administer employment or volunteer placement for insurance purposes, including public liability and WorkCover to fulfil various legal obligations, including employment and contractual obligations, occupational health and safety law and to investigate incidents to respond to legal claims against our school/the Department. Our school uses or discloses information consistent with Victorian privacy law, as follows: for a primary purpose – as defined above for a related secondary purpose that is reasonably to be expected – for example, to enable the school council to fulfil its objectives, functions and powers with notice and/or consent – including consent provided on enrolment and other forms when necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to: a person’s life, health, safety or welfare the public’s health, safety or welfare when required or authorised by law – including as a result of our duty of care, anti-discrimination law, occupational health and safety law, reporting obligations to agencies such as Department of Health and Human Services and complying with tribunal or court orders, subpoenas or Victoria Police warrants to investigate or report unlawful activity, or when reasonably necessary for a specified law enforcement purpose, including the prevention or investigation of a criminal offence or seriously improper conduct, by or on behalf of a law enforcement agency for Department research or school statistics purposes
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