School principals will get greater powers to ban aggressive parents from school grounds as violence and aggression towards staff remains rife.

A parent who assaulted a child and another who threatened to bring a weapon onto school grounds are among the 35 school community safety orders issued since the scheme was introduced in 2022.

Principals say they are also using the threat of a ban to deter bad behaviour and defuse volatile situations.

But school leaders have complained that the process is complex, problematic parents enjoy too much protection and enforcement can be toothless.

The system allows principals to issue threatening or abusive parents or carers with orders to stay away from school grounds and off online school forums for up to a year. Parents unhappy with the school’s de

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