Thursday, 4 September 2025
*Original Content was created in September 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 PLD 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
Chair
Brent Lewis, Former Principal, Avondale College
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key legal and regulatory obligations regarding insurance in the education sector
- Identify appropriate insurance policies and manage risk to protect schools and staff effectively
Insurance Policies and Compliance: What You Need to Know to Protect Your School and Your Staff
- Understanding risks: current trends and challenges in insurance affecting schools
- Legal compliance and regulatory requirements: what laws and regulations are schools obliged to take into account
- Coverage types: which kinds of insurance policies are relevant to schools
- Risk assessment and mitigation: what can schools do pre-emptively to ensure adequate cover is in place
- Claims handling and settlement: what to do if schools are required to call on insurance policies
Presented by Mat Martin, Senior Associate, Lane Neave
Presenters
Brent Lewis, Former Principal, Avondale CollegeBrent Lewis has led three secondary schools and is the former Principal of Avondale (a secondary School of over 2,800 students and 240 staff). Brent has both an MA and MBA and uniquely has been the chair of both the Wellington and Auckland principals associations, Avondale College has high success rates in both NCEA and Cambridge pathways with students consistently topping NZ and the world in various subjects, Currently the college has former students at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Amherst; all on scholarship., Avondale College is now the highest provider of IT industry certifications in Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk in New Zealand and Avondale students have made up all of the national representatives to the Microsoft Global championships for three years in succession..8 students winning top ten finishes against annual fields of 1 million., The college now has its own data centre and leading edge network and most recently Brent has been engaging with international and domestic strategic partners on the Colleges new Innovation Programme which is being trialled with other schools as a not-for- profit initiative.
Mat Martin, Senior Associate, Lane Neave
Mat is a specialist civil and commercial litigation lawyer based in Auckland. He has acted in a range of civil and commercial disputes, including in relation to insolvency, construction, contract, shareholder, employment and property-related matters. He has particular experience in dealing with complex litigation, providing accurate and timely advice to clients seeking to resolve difficult issues.
