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Planning and partnerships

Key roles and responsibilities of government and community stakeholders for planning and delivering community safety responses are outlind below. 

Agency group or stakeholderRole and responsibility
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Serivces
  • Lead agency and first contact point for the Queensland Government in each region regarding Schoolies
  • Contact for general information about Schoolies.
  • Contact for informational material for parents and school leavers
  • Reference point for other agencies and stakeholder contacts
  • Contact point for Regional Managers Coordination Networks via regional offices
  • Operational delivery of the Gold Coast Schoolies Community Safety Response
  • Statewide Schoolies grant funding
Queensland Police Service
  • The Queensland Police Service has lead responsibility for law and order, and the enforcement of law as it applies to underage drinking.
  • Plays the key role in public safety and traffic management
  • Relevant safety campaigns, such as One Punch Can Kill and Safe Partying
Department of Justice and Attorney-General Office of Fair Trading
  • Consumer protection, including fair charges and conditions for accommodation.

Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR)

  • Administers fines for alcohol-related offences, including underage drinking and supply
  • Regulates licensed premises to ensure responsible and legal supply of alcohol
Department of Community Safety Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS)
  • Emergency treatment
  • Patient transport
  • Medical advice

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS)

  • Fire prevention and management
  • Road accident and trauma
  • Other rescues
Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ)
  • Rescues during emergencies and disasters
  • State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers
  • On site to provide general assistance
Department of Education, Training and Employment Education Queensland
  • Distributing information to school communities about Schoolies
  • Relevant safety campaigns, such as Act Smart Be Safe
Queensland Health
  • Public health information on the effects of alcohol and responsible alcohol consumption, tobacco, other drugs, safe sex, sunburn and skin cancer
  • Hospital services as required
Department of Transport and Main Roads
  • Transport services
  • Traffic offences
  • Transport safety
  • Driver's licenses
Local governments
  • Approval for specific Community Safety Responses and venues
  • Water supplies
  • Waste management
  • Traffic management
  • Cleaning Services
Businesses
  • To exercise fairness and avoid opportunism and profiteering from a young, vulnerable group of clients
Commission for Children and
Young People and Child Guardian
  • Advises those staff and volunteers working at Schoolies to check with their organisations if they need a blue card
  • The Commission can help organisations develop risk management strategies to protect young people
Non-government community organisations and volunteers

Volunteers and non-government community organisations perform a range of tasks and provide schoolies with:

  • general assitance and advice
  • hydration services
  • a point of access and referral to other services
  • in room assistance such as cleaning rooms and food preparation
  • accommodation visits and mediation services
  • assistance with walking schoolies home on request, and
  • assistance with directions, bus timetables and providing important health and safety information to school leavers while attending planned Schoolies activities
Parents and carers
  • Assist their teenagers to understand their rights and responsibilities during Schoolies
  • Communicate their own values and discuss tough issues, including sexuality, violence, alcohol and drug use
  • Discourage their teenagers from attending Schoolies
  • Encourage alternative forms of celebrating the completion of school
Schoolies Being well informed prior to Schoolies, including having an understanding of:
  • accommodation arrangements and responsibilities as tenants
  • drinking alcohol responsibly
  • underage drinking and penalties
  • personal safety and watching out for your friends
  • ID requirements
  • road safety and tips to travel safely
  • sexual health
  • sexual assault – ideas to increase safety 
  • emergency medical help and important contact numbers
A range of resources containing information on these topics is provided to Year 12 school leavers through the Safer Schoolies initiative