Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the legal definitions of hate speech and discrimination under New Zealand law and their implications for schools
- Learn practical strategies for preventing and responding to incidents while balancing free speech, student support, and school policies
Chair
Victoria Marsden, Head of Student Services and Counsellor, Hobsonville Point Secondary School
Handling Hate Speech and Discrimination
Equip yourself in your role as a school guidance counsellors with the legal and practical tools to address hate speech and discrimination effectively.
- What hate speech and discrimination mean under New Zealand law
- The school’s role in preventing and responding to incidents
- How to support students affected by or involved in harmful behaviour
- Ways to balance free speech with school policies
- Understanding key legal risks
Presented by Andrea Twaddle, Director, DTI Lawyers
Presenters
Victoria Marsden, Head of Student Services and Counsellor, Hobsonville Point Secondary School
Victoria has completed both a Masters in Counselling (2008) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision (Counselling) at Waikato University (2017). Victoria is the Head of Te Ara Manaaki Student Services at Hobsonville Point Secondary School, with a counselling role. She leads a team of counsellors and the school nursing staff. Victoria is a fully accredited member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) and adheres to the principles of the NZAC Code of Ethics. Victoria works within a restorative, narrative and social constructionist framework and has published and been a reviewer for articles submitted for publication in peer reviewed academic journals both within New Zealand and overseas. Victoria has presented at conferences and delivered numerous workshops on both disordered eating and creating safe environments for our Rainbow rangatahi in schools.
Andrea Twaddle, Director, DTI Lawyers
Andrea is an experienced, highly effective, specialist employment lawyer and workplace investigator. Andrea is well known for providing astute, commercially sound and pragmatic advice. Her experience as a Director and prior career in human resources ensures a first-hand understanding that people are essential to an organisation’s success and that there are rewards and challenges that arise from managing staff. Andrea is recognised as one of few specialists in the greater Waikato region to conduct high quality, independent workplace investigations into allegations of misconduct (including harassment and bullying). She is a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI), and holds the AWI Institute Certificate in international best practice investigations. Andrea has a specialist interest in sport and recreation, and education. She is a Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Sports Tribunal, the Selection Review and Appeals Commissioner for Rowing New Zealand and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association. Andrea has expertise in the health (in particular mental health) and education sectors. She provides advice and representation in Coronial Inquiries. Andrea was Counsel for respondent employers in the pay equity claim for Support Workers in the mental health sector, from which a successful settlement was negotiated with Government and legislation followed.
