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School disability loading to be cut by $463m

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By Catherine Smith
| Education Review Australia
Funding might be used to hire a classroom assistant or it might be used to develop new teaching resources. Image: iStock/JohnnyGreig The federal government has announced a new “safeguard” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities. Please login below to view content or subscribe now. Username or Email: Password: Remember Me Tags disability funding disability loading disability support federal budget
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The government wants to save $463m by tightening disability support to school students. What’s going on? Original

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By Catherine Smith
| The Conversation
The federal government has announced a new “safeguard” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities. The budget papers say there is an issue with “inaccurate claiming” by schools and new controls are needed to prevent “fraud and non-compliance”. This is more than a technical measure. It is about how disability support is recognised, documented and resourced in Australian schools. How does school funding work at the moment?
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Australia's under-16 social media ban won't change the reality of growing up online

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By Catherine Smith, Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin 
| Phys.org
Credit: Norma Mortenson from Pexels Australia is about to test one of the world's boldest interventions in child digital life by putting age restrictions on social media for children under 16. On the surface, it's a clean, decisive policy—take away the digital spaces linked to distress and shield young people for a little longer. But dig deeper and things aren't so clear cut.
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