The Accountability and Improvement Framework for Victorian Government Schools requires all government schools to participate in a 4 year cycle of evaluation, review and strategic planning. Schools need to submit the following documents to their regional office at the following times.

Every School, every year.

Required Document	Endorsement Required	Sign Off on Hard Copies	Required Format	Where do I send it and to who?	When do I send it?
Draft Annual Implementation Plan (AIP)	No	No	Electronic	Regional Accountability Officer	Dec 8th of this year
Final Annual Implementation Plan (AIP)	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	No hard copy is needed however tick box found on electronic copy must be ticked by Principal (to verify endorsement of SC) & Regional Director or rep	Electronic	Regional Accountability Officer	Mar 31st of the next year
Annual Report to the school community AR (reporting on the previous year)	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	No	Electronic and Hard copy format	Regional Accountability Officer	Mar 31st each year
School Council Membership Schedule. (schedule 7)	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	No	Electronic or fax	Regional Accountability Officer	First meeting of the new school council. Approximately April each year)

Required Document	Endorsement Required	Sign Off on Hard Copies	Required Format	Where do I send it and to who?	When do I send it?
Terms of Reference (Extended Diagnostic, Diagnostic and Negotiated reviews only)	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	Yes (principal, School Council president and Regional Director or rep)	Electronic. A Hard copy must be kept at the school	Regional Accountability Officer	A few weeks before the review date
School Self Evaluation Report	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	No	Electronic	Regional Accountability Officer & School reviewer	Two weeks before your review day
Draft School Strategic plan	No	No	Electronic	Regional Accountability Officer	By week five of the term after your review
School Strategic Plan	Yes(i.e. minuted at school council meeting)	Yes (principal, School Council president and Regional Director or rep)	Electronic and a signed hard copy	Regional Accountability Officer	By the end of the term after your review has been completed

 

All of these documents can be easily submitted to the regional office via a dedicated email address; region.accountability.nmr@edumail.vic.gov.au  and you will receive a receipt.  For more information in regard to the details of these documents please look at the following website School Accountability and Improvement