Compliance Training For Teachers

Compliance training for teachers is a set of short online courses that a school assigns to its teaching and support staff, so they understand their obligations to students and colleagues. Sentrient courses cover child safety, work health and safety, privacy, social media and respectful behaviour, and leave a record of who completed each one.

Yes. Sentrient courses are kept up to date with legislation across Australian states and territories. Most are created with Mills Oakley, and the child safety and protection course is written together with Child Safeguard. Several courses also cover New Zealand, and we can confirm each one in a demo.

Most schools rely on student-free day sessions, slide decks and free government modules, and Sentrient adds one library of courses that the school assigns to its staff and tracks. For background, read our articles on child safety compliance for Australian schools and what compliance looks like for school leaders.

Sentrient provides short awareness courses that a school assigns to its staff, so it is not accredited professional development, does not count as hours toward teacher registration, is not a teaching qualification and is not legal advice. It does not replace mandatory reporting training required by your state. For tracking learning across a school, see learning management software for schools.

The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations set a nationally consistent approach to child safety, and each state and territory sets its own child safe standards and mandatory reporting rules. Work health and safety law also expects a school to provide the instruction, training, information and supervision its workers need. Your school remains responsible for deciding what training its staff need.

Start with child safety and protection for all staff, and the child safety course for managers for school leaders. Add work health and safety, privacy, and internet and social media next, then workplace bullying, sexual harassment, and occupational violence and aggression. Code of conduct and cyber security are useful additions.

Free government programs teach an individual one topic, while Sentrient gives a school one library across topics with a record of who has completed each. The eSafety Commissioner, for example, offers free online safety training for educators. The two work well side by side.

Most courses on this page take about 15 minutes, and the child safety and protection course takes about 30 minutes. A teacher can finish one in a free period, and a school can spread the full set across a term.

Sentrient recommends that people complete compliance training at induction and on a regular basis afterwards, for example annually. The start of the school year is a natural point. Your school sets the cycle that suits its risks and any state requirements, and remains responsible for that decision.

Yes. Sentrient courses are legally endorsed. Most are created with employment law firm Mills Oakley, and the child safety and protection course is written together with Child Safeguard. They are awareness training in plain English and do not replace legal advice or the guidance issued by your state.

Sentrient reviews its courses regularly and updates them as legislation changes in each state and territory. Updates are made in the course library, so staff always open the current version and the school does not have to rewrite its training each time a rule changes.

The child safety courses explain the national principles for child safe organisations and the responsibilities each person has for preventing and responding to harm. Mandatory reporting rules and child safe standards differ by state and territory, so check what your regulator requires. Your school remains responsible for making sure staff complete any training your state requires.

Yes. You can run the courses on the Sentrient platform or license them for a third-party learning management system that is SCORM-compliant. Inside Sentrient, the learning management system enrols staff and reports on completion across the school.

In Sentrient you enrol staff in a single course or a learning program. Automated notifications and alerts tell each person what is due and by when, and the same alerts remind anyone who has not finished, including casual and part-time staff.

Sentrient reports on learning across the organisation, so a principal or business manager can see who has completed each course and who has not. Those records help you show the steps the school took during a registration review, an audit or after a complaint. Your school remains responsible for keeping and using them.

Teachers and support staff complete the courses on this page. School leaders can add Compliance Training For Managers, the school council or board can use Compliance Training For Board of Directors, and the HR or business office can use Compliance Training For HR Professionals. All of them draw on one library.

Yes. The courses are designed to be used alongside your policies, so staff learn the general position and then read your own child safe policy and code of conduct. Sentrient also offers policy management software, so policy sign-off and training can sit in one system.

Yes. The courses are online and suitable for employees, contractors and volunteers, so casual relief teachers, coaches and parent helpers can complete them before they start, without attending a session in person.

Yes. Sentrient keeps its courses up to date with legislation across all Australian states and territories. A school group with campuses in more than one jurisdiction can therefore use one set of courses, while checking any extra training each state requires.

Training records are personal information about your staff, so store and share them with care. The privacy regulator lists staff training on privacy and security obligations among the steps that help protect personal information. Your school remains responsible for how it collects, stores and uses learner data.

Sentrient gives a school legally endorsed courses, a short format staff finish, a completion record for every person and delivery through Sentrient or your own LMS. The same library covers school leaders, the board and the business office, and more than 1,000 organisations use Sentrient.

Organisations of every size and sector use Sentrient, including Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School and Kids First Australia, an early education specialist. Read how Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School uses Sentrient for online compliance training and policy sign-off.

Sentrient compliance training is priced per user, with plans that scale from a small early learning service to a large school. The price depends on how many staff you train and which courses you choose, so we prepare a quote tailored to your school.

Yes. Book a free 20-minute demo and we will show you the courses, the learner experience for staff and the completion reporting. You can ask about delivery through your own LMS, and we will follow up with a quote for your school.