WA news LIVE: Ellenbrook man charged after car ploughs into house

Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, March 20.

Making headlines today is a “sudden” change at WA schools that has parents concerned.

Many parents were told at the start of the 2025 school year their children would no longer require a “documented plan” – an umbrella term used to describe ways of catering to the educational needs of students through individualised programs.

The changes were made after the State School Teachers’ Union WA’s latest enterprise bargaining agreement clarified seven specific disability categories where documented plans were required.

Perth parent Sophie said she had taken her young son – who has dyslexia and was listed as being “at educational risk” – out of her local public school and moved him to a nearby Catholic school for the start of year 2.

Holly Thompson has the full story. You can read all about it here.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it yesterday afternoon, a Halls Head mother will spend the next two months behind bars after a magistrate jailed her over the deaths of her twin daughters in a car crash last February deemed “unquestionably serious”.

Rachel Van Oyen, 32, was travelling on Great Eastern Highway in Carrabin when her Toyota Camry sedan veered off the road and crashed into a tree.

Read the full story here.

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