“That ICPA (Aust) advocates to provide a clause to the In-Home Care Program in order to employ an individual/s to assist with supervising school-aged students in geographically isolated classrooms.”
As the current parameters of the In-Home Care Program revolve around early childhood and preschool aged care, families of geographically isolated students are unable to access the program to fund a distance education classroom supervisor despite the program being a natural fit for this type of childcare.
As it is a requirement of state Distance Education (DE) and Schools of the Air (SOTAs) that a supervisor be present to support the delivery of the DE curriculum, it is our belief that better support should be offered to students in the form of a paid distance education classroom supervisor.
If families of geographically isolated students had access to the financial assistance offered by the In- Home Care Program distance education classroom supervisors could be properly renumerated and as such we believe we would see an improvement in students’ educational outcomes.
