“It’s pretty flat tack at the moment.” The virus would most likely spread further when families travelled during the school holidays next week, he said
. He urged parents to get their children checked if they had concerns, regardless of messages about how much pressure the health system was under at present.
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Mai FM host K’Lee McNabb’s 4-month-old daughter, Honour, was born prematurely and had been in intensive care after catching RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). Some primary schools had reported having up to half their pupils and some staff absent due to respiratory illnesses, New Zealand Principals’ Federation president Perry Rush said.
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The legal firm claimed a school should never be put in a situation where it could be “prevented from carrying out its primary obligations,” and believed schools would have grounds to have the directions judicially reviewed. The ministry currently has the power to direct a school to enrol an excluded student under the Education and Training Act 2020. But Quigg Partners said these enrolments could prevent schools from maintaining a physically and emotionally safe place for students and staff, also a direction under the Act.
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Associate education minister Jan Tinetti said she understood schools were stretched thin. The stance goes against Crown Law advice issued in 2015 which found schools’ obligations to take students were not in conflict with their duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to ensure a safe environment for workers and other people.
IHC New Zealand is taking a fight against our schooling system to court and is collecting evidence from around Aotearoa.
Kathryn Sadgrove says in the past 27 years, she has seen young disabled people be continually treated unfairly in schools. File image
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The advocacy group says young disabled people are being discriminated against and its legal team has started meeting with parents, educators and community groups around the country, ahead of a Human Rights Tribunal hearing.
The first hui was held in Whangārei yesterday.
Around 20 people told their stories to IHC lawyers and Kathryn Sadgrove was one of them.
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