Annual Report 2019-2020
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The Education Directorate acknowledges the Ngunnawal people as the traditional owners and custodians of the Canberra region. The region is also an important meeting place and significant to other Aboriginal groups. We also acknowledge and pay respect to the Wreck Bay peoples as traditional owners and custodians of the land on which the Jervis Bay school is located. We respect the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly our Aboriginal staff, and their continuing culture and contribution they make to the Canberra region and the life of our city. Contact for this report General enquiries about this report should be directed to: Phone: (02) 6205 5429 option 6; or Email your enquiry to [email protected]. Freedom of Information Freedom of information requests can be made by emailing: [email protected] Accessibility The ACT Government is committed to making its information, services, events and venues accessible to as many people as possible. 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First published December 2020 Information about the Directorate and an electronic version of this annual report can be found on the website: www.education.act.gov.au Contents Transmittal Certificate ............................................................................................................... 8 Organisational Overview .......................................................................................................... 10 Performance Analysis ............................................................................................................... 25 Output Class 1: Public School Education.................................................................................. 30 Output Class 2: Non-Government Education .......................................................................... 55 Scrutiny .................................................................................................................................... 57 Risk Management .................................................................................................................... 74 Internal Audit ........................................................................................................................... 76 Fraud Prevention ...................................................................................................................... 78 Freedom of Information .......................................................................................................... 79 Community Engagement and Support ..................................................................................... 81 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reporting ...................................................................... 84 Work Health and Safety ........................................................................................................... 87 Human Resource Management ............................................................................................... 92 Ecologically Sustainable Development .................................................................................. 102 Financial Management Analysis ............................................................................................. 110 Financial Statements .............................................................................................................. 124 Capital Works ......................................................................................................................... 202 Asset Management ................................................................................................................ 209 Government Contracting ....................................................................................................... 212 Statement of Performance .................................................................................................... 214 Part 4 - Annual Report Requirements for Specific Reporting Entities ................................... 223 Investigation of Complaints ................................................................................................... 223 Ministerial and Director-General Directions .......................................................................... 223 Annexure A - ACT Teacher Quality Institute Annual Report 2018-19 ................................... 225 Annexure B - ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies Annual Report 2018-19 .................... 287 Appendix 1 Compliance Statement ....................................................................................... 310 Appendix 1 Government Contracting .................................................................................... 312 Appendix 2 List of Tables ....................................................................................................... 312 Appendix 3 List of Figures ...................................................................................................... 314 Appendix 4 Abbreviations and Acronyms .............................................................................. 315 Index ....................................................................................................................................... 318 ACT Government I Education Directorate 3 Annual Report 2019-2020 Foreword This has been a year like no other for ACT education as children and young people, families and staff have responded to a range of significant challenges - including bushfires and smoke haze, a major hailstorm in January 2020 and to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am proud and inspired by the incredible adaptability, resilience, collaboration and innovation I have witnessed from all parts of our education community. This has supported the Directorate’s strong focus on wellbeing and continuity of learning for all children and young people and our staff, including through the provision of remote learning and development of a COVID-19 roadmap for schools to ensure preparedness for further changes. The 10-year Future of Education strategy, along with ACT public schools’ strong foundation in digital technology and infrastructure, placed the Directorate in good stead to respond and adapt swiftly to the changing circumstances as a result of the pandemic. The disruption to our usual ways of teaching and learning has accelerated progress in many areas of the Future of Education strategy such as personalised learning, flexible education, and digitally-enabled pedagogy. The Directorate has maintained a focus on strengthening inclusive education, ensuring that additional supports were in place for students during the period of remote learning. This includes provision of devices and internet access and establishing safe and supervised sites for students who could not learn from home. We are giving young people the best start through the expansion of Koori Preschool hours and the introduction of free early childhood education and care for three-year-olds, commencing with access for those who need it most. In establishing this service, we have undertaken school upgrades and modernised agreements to establish partnerships with Early Childhood Education and Care providers. This is an important first step in moving towards our vision for community schools. We have continued our focus on giving students more of a say through initiatives such as the Minister’s Student Congress, listening to our students’ experiences of remote learning and the transition back to on- campus learning to inform the Directorate’s COVID-19 scenario planning. To ensure we are supporting a workforce of the future we have continued to implement the Empowered Leadership Plan, with a strong emphasis in this reporting period on effective collaboration for excellence, equity, and wellbeing. This includes embedding professional learning that have played a vital role in enabling collaboration and sharing of lessons learned from the COVID-19 response to harness and build upon what has worked well. ACT Government I Education Directorate 4 Annual Report 2019-2020 And finally, the Directorate has focussed the system on what matters most by integrating revised performance indicators, improved data collection and streamlined tools in system and school improvement processes to support more tightly targeted strategies designed to achieve outcomes. As our public schools continue to grow, this includes a focus on modelling and analysis to forecast enrolment demand and inform future planning for ACT public schools. The Directorate also finalised the Setup for Success: An Early Childhood Strategy, with the release occurring in early 2020-21. This ten year guide sits alongside the Future of Education Strategy guiding the Directorate to ensure all children in our