Education Act 2015

to recognise the importance of parents and communities in the governance of Government schools; and

for that purpose, to provide for the establishment and operation of school representative bodies and require principals of Government schools to take reasonable steps to establish them; and

to recognise that independent public school boards are accountable to their local communities for the achievement of educational outcomes for children and young persons in those communities; and

to provide for the establishment of a parent consultative group at a Government school at which there is not a school representative body and at which it is not reasonably practicable for one to be established.