Tasmanian Catholic Schools Parents & Friends Federation

The Tasmanian Catholic Schools Parents and Friends Federation represents the parents of about 15,000 students who attend the 37 Catholic schools in Tasmania. It liaises with Catholic Church authorities, peak education bodies and the Tasmanian Government and its instrumentalities to maintain and protect the interests of Catholic school students and their families. On the Australian national education scene, the Federation is affiliated with the Australian Parents Council.

Parents have a particular important part to play in the educating community, since it is to them that primary and natural responsibility for their children's education belongs. Unfortunately in our day there is wide spread tendency to delegate this unique role. Therefore it is necessary to foster initiatives which encourage commitment, but which provide at the same time the right sort of concrete support which the family needs and which involve it in the Catholic School's educational project. The constant aim of the school therefore should be contact and dialogue with the pupil's families, which should be encouraged through the promotion of parents' associations, in order to clarify with their indispensable collaborations that personalised approach which is needed for an educational project to be efficacious.