Students felt safer and bullying had been reduced in public high schools with secular welfare officers

Students felt safer and bullying had been reduced in public high schools with secular welfare officers, says an independent review that the NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has sent to the federal government after its push to fund religious-only chaplains in schools.

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Mr Piccoli sent the research to the federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne this week after it emerged the redesigned national schools chaplaincy program would exclude secular welfare workers.

The government was forced to rethink the $224 million scheme after the High Court ruled in June the Commonwealth could not directly fund religious chaplains in public schools. Under the new scheme, chaplains could be of any faith but could not proselytise and must meet minimum qualification standards.

The federal government maintained chaplains made a valuable contribution to the wellbeing of students but an independent review commissioned by the NSW Department of Education found a three-year trial of 50 secular student support officers in NSW high schools had "overwhelming support" from principals, staff and students because of the significant impact they had on the schools.

The report, by the University of NSW's Social Policy Research Centre, said 80 per cent of students felt the support officer had made their school a safer place while, of the 35 principals surveyed, 31 said bullying had been reduced, 32 said student behaviour had improved and 27 said academic performance had lifted.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/adrian-piccoli-wants-feds-to-fund-secular-school-chaplains-20140829-109xn8.html

Students felt safer and bullying had been reduced in public high schools with secular welfare officers

Students felt safer and bullying had been reduced in public high schools with secular welfare officers

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