Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

We will absolutely move as quickly as we can to appoint this board. We have given the commitment that the work on the SES methodology would be complete by the middle of next year and we have given the commitment that changes around that, should they be necessary, would be implemented in time for the 2019 school year. So it is absolutely the government's intention and commitment that, once we are in receipt of that report, we will act as quickly as we can to implement any findings of the reviews that would be undertaken by this body and make sure that, if adjustments to funding models are required, they are brought in as quickly as they can be and, equally, as fairly as they can be in terms of their impact on schools and systems, with sufficient notice ahead of each school year, and their funding arrangements.