Disability Connect Seminar: Education Legal Issues

This Disability Connect seminar will be of interest to all families raising a child with a disability, whether in mainstream or special school environments. Come along and learn about enrolment rights, decision processes around special education, processes around an ORS funding decline, requests to parents for teacher aide funding contributions, requests to parents for funding for student support at extra-curricular camps and activities, stand-downs, use of restraint, and much more. This seminar explores the following topics:

• Section 9 access to Special School, why is this legally required?
• Section 10 appeals to ORS decline.
• Stand downs – under what conditions are they fair?
• Clarifying responsibility for the student’s safety and welfare during travel between school and home.
• Physical aggression and use of restraint.
• Issue of school requests for funding contribution from parents (to help pay for teacher aide or resources).
• School camps and extra-curricular activities – requests from the school that parents pay/provide the support
  person to accompany that student.
• Plus a range of other education legal issues.

A resource table will be available with useful print material, free of charge. 

Who Should Attend: Families concerned with the support entitlement for their child in New Zealand Schools.

Presenter: Nan Jensen – Barrister and Solicitor, Quinlaw
Nan has been involved in the disability sector since 1998 in governance, advisory, support parent, advocacy and
employee capacities. Nan herself and two of her adult children are on the autism spectrum and she decided to study
law after taking a successful arbitration case against the Ministry of Education about ORRS funding. She practices all
aspects of family/private law and specialises in disability law. Nan lives in Hamilton and works with clients all over
New Zealand thanks to the wonders of technology.

Date: Monday the 24th of May 2021

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 

Where: Zoom Only

Cost: $20.00 per family 

RSVP:  Please RVSP by contacting Disability Connect on 09 636 0351 or admin@disabilityconnect.org.nz

Please click here for the official flyer.