School Councils

Back to:

School Councils

All government schools in Victoria, apart from the Distance Education Centre Victoria, have a school council. The school council is the group of people who assist in governing the school. It is given the power to set the key directions for the school, and is a legal entity in its own right. A school council directly influences the quality of education that a school provides to its students.

This website supports existing and prospective school councillors in their roles and school council processes.

Key Documents

Overview

The following key documents provide an overview of school council roles and processes. 

Improving School Governance - a training package for school councils

Improving School Governance is a new training package for school councils which has been developed to improve the knowledge, understanding and skills of school council members, school council presidents and school principals.

The package consists of four modules: Induction, Strategic Planning, Finance, and Policy Development and Review. Training for school council members is available through regions by trained facilitators and principals are able to use the package with their own school councils.  

The modules can also be accessed online. Participants can complete the modules at their own pace, in any order and are able to return to each module as many times as necessary. To begin the online training see: Improving School Governance

The following participant handbooks are part of the package:

Ministerial Orders