Community Use of School Facilities
State school facilities are valuable community assets and when not required by schools for school purposes, should be available for use by communities for activities that do not interfere with the school’s teaching and learning programs and that provide benefits to the community.
Community users are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the Department of Education’s community use of state school facilities policy, community use of state school facilities procedure and these guidelines when considering the hire of a school’s facility and/or equipment.
The department has three hire agreement templates for use by schools. These provide the community user with the right to occupy and use existing school facilities or equipment for a particular purpose in accordance with agreed terms and conditions. The hire agreements are approved by the school principal.