Guidance on teaching with animals
This guidance provides advice for Victorian schools seeking to keep or use animals for teaching and non-teaching purposes.
This guidance contains the following chapters:
- Requirements for schools
- Scientific Procedures Premises Licence
- Permits to keep or use wildlife
- Animal welfare requirements
- Biosecurity in schools
- VSAEC application and approval process
- Overview
- When is VSAEC approval required?
- Categories of animal use
- Common examples of animal use in schools
- Forms and record-keeping
- Amendments to an approved project
- Monitoring and recording animal welfare and care
- Reporting the death of an animal or unexpected adverse event
- Vet report
- Post-mortem report
- Project completion and annual report
- School audits
- VSAEC inspections – monitoring the care and use of animals
- Animal Welfare Victoria audits
- About the VSAEC
- Role and responsibilities
- Committee composition
- Terms of reference
- Complaints and grievances
- Complaints about animal treatment in a school
- Grievances against VSAEC decisions
Table of contents for the guidance on teaching with animals
Reviewed 11 October 2022