Education Dept agrees to investigate cancer cases at Hazelwood School
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Tasmania's Education Department expects to report back to staff at Hobart's Hazelwood School within two weeks about how it plans to investigate a possible cancer cluster.
Government representatives met staff at the special needs school yesterday to reassure them that radiation testing had returned normal results.
But the department has since agreed to investigate individual cases of cancer to determine whether they're linked to an electricity substation at the school.
Leanne Wright from the Australian Education Union says the Government has acted responsibly.
"This is a new situation for the department, they haven't actually had to do an investigation along these lines before I don't think and they weren't clear what process would need to be used.
"But [they committed] that they would go away and look into that immediately and then report back to staff in a week or two to see how the investigation would be conducted.
