Fitzroy school under investigation over lockdown

compliance
The statutory body that registers and regulates schools is investigating whether
Fitzroy Community School has failed to meet minimum standards for school
registration.

The school has come under scrutiny for inviting parents to send their children to the
campus during lockdown.

There has now been 33 COVID-19 cases linked to the school, including more than 20
children.

The Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority [VRQA] has written to the

school's founder, Faye Berryman, asking her to provide information about the
school's safety and welfare plans.

VRQA chief executive Jonathan Kaplan said in the letter his "immediate concern is for
the ongoing safety of students at the school and the actions taken by the school to
discharge its duty of care".

The school has been given until the end of the week to respond.

Mr Merlino, who is also the state's education minister, strongly criticised the school's
principal, Tim Berryman.

"Imagine the case numbers, imagine the hospitalisations, if every single principal was
as irresponsible as this one," he said.