Rationale:

Laburnum Primary School offers high quality programs in classrooms and specialist areas. The School Council makes every effort to keep the cost of items and activities to a minimum and ensure teaching and learning opportunities are affordable for all students.

We encourage all students to participate in camps, incursions and excursions.

The school must ensure that the provision of services for students (i.e. excursions/camps/swimming programs/visiting groups) do not incur direct costs to the school, nor cause the school to run at a loss.

There will be occasions when students need to withdraw from a camp, incursion or excursion after they have made payment.

Aims:

• To provide a fair and equitable refund system

Implementation:

Laburnum Primary School advises parents of requests for Parent Payments to support teaching and learning, in accordance with the Department of Education Parent Payments Policy.

• The school is unable to refund payments made for costs that have already been paid, where those funds have already been transferred or committed to a third party and no refund is available to the school.
• Where a per head fee is charged and refundable, refunds are able to be given.
• Where the school is charged for the provision of resources, a program or a service as a bulk cost, and not a per head cost, no refund is able to be given.
• Where there is a combination of a bulk charge and a per head charge, e.g. in an excursion: the bus charge is bulk cost. Entry fee is per head cost. Only the per head component is able to be refunded.
• Refunds will only be given when requested in writing within 14 days after the event.
• Deposits paid for school camps will be non-refundable unless cancelled either by the school or at the discretion of the Principal.
• The ‘Camps, Incursions or Refund Form’  must be completed for all reimbursements within 14 days of the event. The form is on page (2).
• Refunds will be processed once all outstanding costs are met.
• Families who enroll in the school during a school year can pay a pro-rata Parent Payment for that year, calculated by the school on a per term basis.

Evaluation:

This policy will be reviewed annually.