17ECommunicating with students and parents

17E Communicating with students and parents (1) This section applies if a person is required to tell a student, or give their parents written notice, about a decision or proposed decision under this chapter. (2) The person must apply natural justice and procedural fairness and, in particular, must— (a) ensure the student and their parents are given sufficient information about the decision-making process, in a language and way that the student and their parents can understand, to allow the student and their parents to effectively take part in the decision-making process and have their views heard; and (b) ensure the student has a parent, or someone else chosen by the student, present when taking part in the decision-making process.

Suspension, transfer, expulsion and exclusion—generally Part 2A.1