SCHOOLS — PARENTAL VIOLENCE
765. Hon COLIN de GRUSSA to the Minister for Education and
Training:
I
refer to a recent article in The West Australian referring to the
violence inflicted on teachers and principals by parents.
(1) How many
incidents have resulted in a prohibition order on a parent or parents within
the school system in the past 12 months?
(2) How many prohibition orders
have been issued for the following years —
(a) 2021; and
(b) 2022, year to date?
(3) How many complaints has the
parent liaison office received since it was established?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(2) Prohibition
orders are a matter for individual schools. The Department of Education does
not hold this information centrally.
(3) The parent liaison office provides support to
complex and protracted complaint processes. There are some instances
when a single complaint may have multiple and ongoing complaints, so the figure
is variable. For the period 13 April 2021 to 31 August 2022, the parent liaison
office has provided support for 95 complaint processes.