Submissions: Education (Update) Amendment Bill SOP

Media Release

Organisation: Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives

For release: 1 December 2016

Call for submissions on the Education (Update) Amendment Bill Supplementary Order Paper No. 250

The Education and Science Committee is calling for submissions on Supplementary Order Paper No. 250. The proposed Supplementary Order Paper would amend the Education (Update) Amendment Bill. It would prohibit seclusion in schools and early childhood education services and would also regulate the reasonable use of physical restraint.

Tell the Education and Science Committee what you think

Please send your submission on Supplementary Order Paper No. 250 by midnight on 31 January 2017.

For more details about the Supplementary Order Paper and the Education (Update) Amendment Bill:

• Read Supplementary Order Paper No. 250

• Regulatory Impact Statement on Eliminating seclusion in schools, early childhood education services and ngā kōhanga reo, and ensuring appropriate use of physical restraint in schools

• Get more details about the Education (Update) Amendment Bill

• Follow the committee’s Facebook page

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