Remote learning Updates

Lockdown extended until midnight on the 2nd September. Hope to see all students back on Friday 3rd September.

Onsite supervision programs for schools in metropolitan Melbourne 

All schools in metropolitan Melbourne should continue to provide an onsite supervision program for students including:

1. Children where both parents/carers are authorised workers who cannot work from home, work for an essential provider and where no other supervision arrangements can be made:
   • where there are two parents/carers, both must be authorised workers, working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for onsite provision
   • for single parents/carers, the authorised worker must be working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for onsite provision.
2. Children experiencing vulnerability, including those:
   • residing in out-of-home care
   • deemed vulnerable by a government agency, funded family or family violence service, and assessed as requiring education and care outside the family home
   • identified by a school as vulnerable, including via referral from a government agency, funded family or family violence service, homeless or youth justice service, or mental health or other health service.

Where a parent/carer indicates that a student with a disability is vulnerable because they cannot learn from home, and/or informs the school the student is vulnerable due to family stress, the school must provide onsite supervision for that student. This applies to students enrolled in special schools and students with a disability enrolled in mainstream schools. 

Jim Miles

Executive Director

MACS