“That ICPA Qld lobbies the Department of Education to broaden its criteria for Rural and Remote Schools to access Allied Health Services that are education related.”
Living and educating children in rural and remote schools, families are continually faced with the challenge of accessing Allied Health Services that will assist with positive educational outcomes.
It is challenging for Education Queensland to fill Allied Health positions in Rural and Remote locations, due to many factors out of their control.
It is paramount that the criteria be reassessed to allow more flexibility for rural and remote schools to access such vital services that may be available in the community from an external provider.
It is really important that children have access to Allied Health in their own communities as taking children 1000's of kms away from home to access these services is disruptive to their schooling due to requiring many days off, where it would only require a 40-minute session in their own environment.
