The NSW Minister for Education issued yet another version of the
Not-For-Profit Guidelines for Non-Government Schools in June 2019,
only six months after the previous version. While many had hoped
for substantial change and improvement, this was not to be. On the
positive side, there is now a section in the Guidelines dealing
with the use of a school's assets by other schools or community
groups. This overcomes the concern that some schools were having
about the obligation they felt they had following the Building the
Education Revolution to allow use of buildings funded by the BER
program for some community use.
Unfortunately, the vexed issue of whether redress payments by a
school which has decided to participate in the National Redress
Scheme could cause the school to operate for profit has not been
dealt with specifically. The Guidelines suggest that such payments
would not comply with the section 83C requirements. The section
headed Ex-Gratia Payments on page
