Chair
Kate Slattery, Deputy Principal, Epsom Girls Grammar School
Learning Objective:
- Conduct fair investigations of child safety allegations against staff
Description
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Responding to and Investigating Child Safety Allegations Against Staff
- When is suspension appropriate and what is the process for it?
- How do you make initial inquiries to determine if there may be anything in the allegations?
- Should you involve the police? And at what stage?
- Who should undertake the investigation?
- The investigation process: step by step
Presented by Fiona McMillan, Partner – Employment Law, Lane Neave
Presenters
Kate Slattery, Deputy Principal, Epsom Girls Grammar School
Kate Slattery is Deputy Principal at Epsom Girls Grammar School. She has been at Epsom Girls since 2016, having worked in large Auckland secondary schools and overseas prior to 7 years in tertiary education focusing on course development and lecturer education. She has a passion for working with people and her current role includes Human Resources and Personnel. As Deputy Principal, Kate works with students, staff and whānau with a focus on facilitating learning through often challenging circumstances. Her diverse role ranges from navigating conflict, challenging behaviours and competency to learning engagement and still enjoying being a teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kate sings with Auckland’s Jubilation Choir and relishes the performance opportunities this has brought her, there’s always something new to look forward to.
Fiona McMillan, Partner – Employment Law, Lane Neave
Fiona is the Auckland Partner of the Employment Law team and commenced her career with Lane Neave in 2007. Fiona and her team act for both employees and employers in matters involving employment relations, health and safety, human rights, privacy and ACC. Fiona advises on all aspects of termination including performance management, misconduct, serious misconduct, medical incapacity, restructurings and redundancies and negotiated exits. She also specialises in collective bargaining, human rights commission matter and independent external investigations. In 2019, Fiona undertook the certification from the Association of Workplace Investigators in Vail, Colorado, USA.
