Guides for school governance, risk and compliance

Registration and review by state For the business manager or compliance lead with a registration review coming, and the principal who signs the submission. Covers the regulator, framework, standards, criteria and cycle for each of the nine jurisdictions (NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory, the ACT, Western Australia and New Zealand), in a comparison table and a section per jurisdiction. Covers self-assessment against the standards, the ACECQA self-assessment for an ELC, and how compliance connects to the state associations. Covers continuous registration readiness: keeping the evidence current between reviews rather than reconstructing it before one.

AI governance in schools For the chair who has been asked for "an AI policy", the principal whose staff are already using tools nobody approved, and the business manager a parent has asked about student data. Covers what AI governance in a school is, the duties AI touches (child safety, privacy, records, WHS and staff conduct), who decides and what is logged, and why an AI policy is a lens over duties a school already carries. Covers the AI risk register, vendors and data sovereignty, incident response, value creation and the eight questions a board should ask, with the three AI packs linked. Covers how EthosOne's own AI is governed: Frontier AI, hosted via Amazon Bedrock in AWS Sydney.

WHS obligations for schools For the business manager who owns the WHS system, the deputy who signs excursions, and the staff who run camps and manage hazards. Covers the duty and the difference between a risk register and a risk assessment, excursions and camps, hazards and bow-ties, and incidents, near misses and the assurance trail. Covers psychosocial safety, enforceable undertakings and what a regulator looks for, citing only dated items the Sector Signal issues state, with each issue linked. Covers group-wide roll-outs where one WHS method runs across several campuses or entities.

The board year For chairs, directors and the principals and business managers who prepare what the board sees. Covers the board's year as a cycle: the standing agenda, the meetings and sub-committees, the pack, the meeting itself and the resolutions register. Covers the risk appetite conversation, where the registration review sits in the board's calendar, and what a chair should see at each meeting. Covers the board and management boundary, with the board pack, board report, resolutions and risk appetite packs linked.

School policy and compliance For the business manager or policy administrator who runs the library, the principal or board who approves it, and the compliance lead who keeps the calendar. Covers the chain from an Act to an obligation, a policy, a procedure, a recurring compliance item and evidence, and the policy lifecycle from draft to review date. Covers procedures against policies, the compliance calendar and the state association calendars, and ethos-preserving policy in faith-based schools. Covers legislative change through the Change Monitor and PolicyAI, in beta, scoring coverage across 25 policy domains on AccuFind legislative intelligence.