Student safety and wellbeing, and quality education delivered by well-governed schools, are central to the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board's (NSSAB) regulatory approach. Governing bodies are responsible for meeting and keeping their legislative obligations to achieve these outcomes.
NSSAB uses a risk-based approach to monitoring, as outlined in our regulatory approach statement ensuring that compliance and enforcement actions are proportionate to the level of risk. This approach prioritises issues that could cause serious harm to students.
Types of enforcement action
Under the Act, NSSAB can take the following actions when needed:
- issuing administrative action
- issuing a compliance notice
- issuing a show cause notice
- amending a school's accreditation
- cancelling a school's accreditation
- withdrawing a school's eligibility for government funding
- prosecuting a governing body or school.
For significant decisions, such as cancelling or amending accreditation, NSSAB issues the governing body with an information notice.
NSSAB may also publish certain details about schools that have committed offences, such as operating without accreditation.
Responding to enforcement action
If a governing body receives an enforcement action, it should:
- carefully read the notice and the reasons for the decision, including any relevant reports
- review the next steps, such as actions needed to address the notice or rights to request a review
- provide any required information to NSSAB by the specified deadline.
Contact us if you have questions about responding to enforcement action.