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Liz Gregory: Gloriavale Leaver's Trust Founder on Gloriavale's school remaining open · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Remember how Gloriavale's school was meant to close Friday. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a change of heart. The school's remaining open
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  Speaker 1: for now. A July Aero report found the school failed
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  Speaker 1: to make three of eight registration criteria that closed it down.
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  Speaker 1: The board, though, has sought a judicial review of the decision.
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  Speaker 1: It now remains open until that is heard. Liz Gregory
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  Speaker 1: is the founder Gloria Vale Leaders Trust. On the Secretary
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  Speaker 1: for Education joins us now, Liz, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. You're obviously worried
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  Speaker 1: about this. You don't want the school to be open.
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  Speaker 1: We're not quite sure at this stage how long it
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  Speaker 1: might be.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's right. The reality is the Ministry of Education
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  Speaker 2: followed due process the safety of the children of paramount.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the statutes embedded into New Zealand law.
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  Speaker 2: It was under those reasons that the school was closed,
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  Speaker 2: and a Gloria Ofval obviously feel that the process hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been followed. So a judicial review doesn't mean that the
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  Speaker 2: court can overturn the decision. Means they examine the process
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  Speaker 2: that the Ministry went through to close it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it just seem interesting to find a judge that would
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  Speaker 2: be willing to keep it open. In the meantime, given
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  Speaker 2: it was around safety issues, it does.
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  Speaker 1: Seem a little odd. What are the kids going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's assumed that it goes through and that
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  Speaker 1: the judicial review is over and the school closes, where
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  Speaker 1: do all the kids go?
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  Speaker 2: The Ministry of Education we're obviously looking into a plan
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  Speaker 2: to rehome or re school the children. They had mentioned
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  Speaker 2: publicly the idea of a hub, a gloru of our
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  Speaker 2: hub that would involve. Initially it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: some takura, so that's our correspondence. School was going to
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  Speaker 2: just pick up the slack making sure the children were
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  Speaker 2: enrolled legally in a school that was going to be
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  Speaker 2: for the first term at Glory of our sites, with
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  Speaker 2: some supervision until they had the ability, I guess to
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  Speaker 2: put some prefabs or make provision for buildings onto another
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  Speaker 2: local school, so they have local schools in the gray
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  Speaker 2: Mouth region. They were about forty minutes away, but that's
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  Speaker 2: not a distance that a lot of other kids don't
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  Speaker 2: travel already to get to school. So there was going
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  Speaker 2: to be an option there, I guess for the children
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  Speaker 2: to go be legally educated and then make decisions around
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  Speaker 2: their future. I mean the parents wouldn't be forced to
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  Speaker 2: send the children there like anyone in New Zealand. They're
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  Speaker 2: welcome to take offers or two's educational provisions for their
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  Speaker 2: children and a variety of sometings.
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  Speaker 1: Liz, appreciate your update this morning. Thank you, Liz Gregory,
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  Speaker 1: founder of the Glory of Our Leaders Trust with us Live.
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  Speaker 1: Their school was meant to be closed from today but
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  Speaker 1: will stay open.
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