Bills
Education Legislation Amendment (Adult and Community Education and Other Matters) Bill 2022
Introduction and first reading
Mr MERLINO (Monbulk—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health) (12:04): I move:
That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005, the Child Wellbeing and Safety (Child Safe Standards Compliance and Enforcement) Amendment Act 2021, the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, the Public Administration Act 2004, the Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 and the Worker Screening Act 2020 and for other purposes.
Motion agreed to.
Mr R SMITH (Warrandyte) (12:05): Could I please ask the minister for a brief explanation of the bill?
Mr MERLINO (Monbulk—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health) (12:05): The bill will amend the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 and other legislation to improve the governance frameworks for the Adult, Community and Further Education Board and AMES Australia, it will make some technical amendments to the regulatory powers and functions of the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority in relation to the child safe standards and compliance audits for registered training organisations—so to get some consistency in terms of the VRQA—and it will also modernise and simplify the Victorian student number scheme. This is about ensuring that we can better track post-secondary pathways for students and also when students move between government and non-government schools.
Read first time.
Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.