Application for Registration for Home Schooling

HOME SCHOOLING
HOME SCHOOLING
Application for Registration
for Home Schooling
The Education and Training Reform Regulations 2007 require
that parents responsible for home schooling their child must
register their child with the Victorian Registration and
Qualifications Authority (VRQA) if their child is of compulsory
school age (6-17 years of age). Only parents resident in
Victoria are able to register their child or children for home
schooling.
Registration to home school children beyond compulsory
school age, that is over 17 years of age, is optional. The VRQA
can register a child who is 17 turning 18 during the year of
home schooling. The VRQA cannot register a child who is 18 at
the time of application.
An application to register a child must be made using the
prescribed application form.
The VRQA will notify you in writing, within 14 days of receiving
a completed application that complies with this registration,
that your child has been registered for home schooling. The
date of registration for home schooling is determined by the
VRQA and is generally the date the VRQA completes the
processing of the application. Parents are to notify the VRQA
in writing within 14 days of deciding to cease home schooling
their child.
Privacy Statement
The collection of this information is required by the Education
Training and Reform Act 2006.
Without this information we are unable to process your
application for registration for home schooling. You are able
to request access to the personal information that we hold
about you, and request that it be corrected. Please contact
the VRQA on +61 3 9637 2806.
INFORMATION FOR COMPLETING
THE APPLICATION FORM
You must provide the name and address of each parent
responsible for the home schooling of the child. A parent
includes a guardian and any person who has parental
responsibility for the child under the Family Law Act 1975
(Cwlth) and any person with whom a child normally or regularly
resides.
Any parent responsible for home schooling must disclose if
there is any order of a court or a tribunal, or any enforceable
agreement that prevents access to the child. Please ensure
that you circle either 2(a) or 2(b).
The parent who will be responsible for the home schooling of
the child must sign the application.
You must provide evidence of the child’s birth date when you
send in the form. Satisfactory evidence can include a copy of
an original certificate, an extract of birth or a note from a
doctor who can attest to the child’s age.
There is no fee payable to the VRQA for this application.
Details of students registered for home schooling will not be
made public.
Further information is available in the Support materials for
the registration of home schooling in Victoria. Please read this
before completing this application form.
Please direct any queries to the Home Schooling Officer, VRQA
at [email protected].
Post the application form, with proof of age documentation,
to:
Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority
Home Schooling Officer
GPO Box 2317
Melbourne VIC 3001
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This form cannot be completed electronically.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION
OF CHILD FOR HOME SCHOOLING
(2) Please circle the correct statement:
2 a)
No order of a court or tribunal or enforceable
agreement (see note 1 below) exists that prevents
or restricts *me/either of us from access to my/our
children named in (1) that would prevent me/either
of us from providing the home schooling. OR
2 b)
Yes, an order of a court or tribunal or an enforceable
agreement exists that affects the home schooling of
the child to be home schooled. (Attach details of that
order or enforceable agreement.)
(1) * [add full names of each parent responsible
for home schooling of child and cross out
whichever is inapplicable]
I/We _________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
of [add address below - physical and postal]
Physical: ________________________________________
________________________________________________
_________________________________Postcode:_______
Postal (if different to physical): _______________________
__________________________________Postcode:______
Telephone): ______________________________________
Email : ___________________________________________
[VRQA only sends reminder notices by email]
Apply to register for home schooling from:
____ / ____ /20____
[add the details of any child of compulsory school age – aged 6
to 17 years - be home schooled]
Fulll name of child:
_______________________________________
Date of birth: ___/___/____
Has the child ever attended school in Victoria?
Y
N
Y
N
Notes
1 An enforceable agreement may include a child agreement or
parenting plan under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth).
2 Under regulation 65(2)(c), an application for registration of a child for
home schooling must be accompanied by evidence of the date of birth
of the child.
Full name of child:
_______________________________________
Date of birth: ___/___/_____
Has the child ever attended school in Victoria?
3 a) taken as a whole, will substantially address the
following learning areas:
• English
• Mathematics
• Sciences (including physics, chemistry and biology)
• Humanities and social sciences (including history,
geography, economics, business, civics and
citizenship)
• The arts
• Languages
• Health and physical education
• Information and communication technology and
design and technology, and
3 b) will be consistent with the principles underlying the
Act, being the principles and practice of Australian
democracy, including a commitment to:
• elected government
• the rule of law
• equal rights for all before the law
• freedom of religion
• freedom of speech and association
• the values of openness and tolerance.
Signed: ______________________________
Date: ___/___/_____
Full name of child:
_______________________________________
Date of birth: ___/___/____
Has the child ever attended school in Victoria?
(3) *I/We undertake that *my/our children named in (1)
will receive regular and efficient instruction that:
Y
N
[please provide the details for any additional children on a
separate application form]
3 Under section 4.9.3 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, it
is an offence to wilfully make, or cause to be made, or provide, any false
or misleading information in any matter relating to registration on the
State
Register under Chapter 4 of that Act. The maximum penalty is 10
penalty units.
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