Checklist · Education Law
Check before releasing a student or student information: NSW government schools
A checklist for a NSW government school asked to release a student, or information about a student, to a parent or another person: court orders on the file, the department's position, and when to call police rather than decide the dispute.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a NSW government school is asked who may collect a student, who may receive school information, or who may enrol the student, and family law or a court order may be relevant. It is written for NSW government schools. Other sectors need their own authority's rules.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may index the orders and requests on the file and list which checklist items they appear to answer. A person at the school, with legal advice where the bulletin says the position is not clear, decides whether the student or the information is released.
AI may
- Index each order by court, date, the people named and the paragraphs that mention school, collection or information
- List requests to collect the student or to receive documents, and whether an order on the file addresses that request
- Flag a request from a person who is not a parent, and an apprehended violence order named in the file
AI must not
- Must not decide that an order allows collection or a release of information
- Must not summarise a child's views or a parent's allegation that is not in a document the school holds
- Must not send school records to a parent because a generated note says they are entitled
The lawyer checks
- The guidelines apply because this is a NSW government school. A non-government school is not decided on this bulletin
- Any order that affects the family and the school is on the file, and the request has been read against that order rather than against a parent's account
- Information is not released, and the student is not released during the day, except as the guidelines and the order allow
- Staff are not left to resolve a breach of orders at the gate. Police are contacted if there is a risk
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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