Adrian Piccoli wants feds to fund secular school 'chaplains'

By Alexandra Smith
Updated September 28 2014 - 10:09am, first published August 30 2014 - 2:26am
Adrian Piccoli says there is a need for secular school "chaplains". Photo: Tamara Dean
Adrian Piccoli says there is a need for secular school "chaplains". Photo: Tamara Dean

Students felt safer and bullying had been reduced in public high schools with secular welfare officers, says an independent review that the NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has sent to the federal government after its push to fund religious-only chaplains in schools.