CONTENTS
CONTENTSPrincipal and board obligations#
You must immediately:
- tell a parent
- tell the Ministry of Education.
Tell a parent#
You must tell the student’s parent that the student has been excluded and the reasons for your decision to exclude. (Unless the student has turned 20.)
To help you do this, you may wish to use the model letter 3 template, 'Notifying parent/s or caregivers of outcome of suspension meeting'.
You may also consider calling a parent.
Tell the Ministry of Education#
You must submit the “advice of exclusion” electronic form in ENROL.
Principal obligations#
'Principal' includes someone who is formally delegated in writing by the board, to act as the principal in your absence. Such delegation can only take effect when the principal is not on duty.
As soon as practicable you must:
- provide an educational programme
- consider guidance and counselling
- try to arrange for a new enrolment.
You must immediately:
- tell the Ministry of Education.
Provide an educational programme#
You must take all reasonable steps to ensure that an appropriate educational programme is provided to the student. The purpose of the programme is to minimise the educational disadvantages that occur from absence from school.
Consider guidance and counselling#
You must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the student gets guidance and counselling that are reasonable and practicable in all the circumstances.
Try to arrange for a new enrolment#
You must try to arrange for the excluded student to be enrolled at another convenient school. If you arrange for a placement at another school and the student is out of zone, the Ministry of Education can endorse the proposed enrolment.
Contact your local education advisor to ask for an endorsement under section 74(2)(c) of the Education and Training Act 2020 if the student is out of zone for the new school.
You must take all reasonable efforts to facilitate a new enrolment for an excluded student. Sending a generic email to your closest schools is not sufficient.
Tell the Ministry of Education#
If you are unable to arrange for the student to enrol in another school within 10 school days you must tell the Ministry of this and the steps taken in trying to arrange placement.
You should only remove an excluded student from the roll when a new school has been found. This is covered in Section 86(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020 which states that excluded students must stay on the school roll until they enrol somewhere else.
