Australian Parents Council eNewsletter

Parent participants sought for panels and focus groups

Are you interested in sharing your experience and insights as a parent participant?

There are a number of organisations currently looking for parents to be part of their panels or focus groups looking at online safety issues and issues around the introduction of a Unique Student Identifier (USI) for students in Australia.

Consultation on the USI seeks:

To understand the value and benefits of the USI for children and families (e.g. social licence)
Information and data sharing (particularly information provided to a trusted school being on-forwarded)
Data use, security and storage
Consent and notifications, opt out and the right to be forgotten

The organisations are especially interested in potential participants who are:

interested in online child safety issues
parents from culturally diverse communities
parents who speak languages other than English
parents of children with disability
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents
from the different schooling sectors (government, independent and Catholic)
younger parents
disadvantaged parents
concerned about child protection circumstances
parents of home-schooled children
LGBTIQ parents and parents of students who identify as LGBTIQ.