Audits find schools in clear breach of Department of Education guidelines on scripture advice to parents

By Joanne McCarthy
August 12 2019 - 5:00am
Assurances: NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said approved religious providers in state primary and high schools would lose access to schools without providing "annual assurances" about volunteer workers by the first term of school each year. Picture: Nick Moir.
Assurances: NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said approved religious providers in state primary and high schools would lose access to schools without providing "annual assurances" about volunteer workers by the first term of school each year. Picture: Nick Moir.

THOUSANDS of Hunter students must wait once a week while a minority - as low as 2 per cent at some schools - attend scripture under a "dysfunctional and ad hoc" system that lacks transparency and places children at risk, say complaints to NSW authorities after audits of Hunter and Central Coast schools.

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