Superintendent Tonya Carew APM OAM, from the Oxley District of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) approached Edmund Rice Education Australia Flexible Schools Networks (EREAFSN) as she was interested in establishing a flexible learning program for disenfranchised youth in the Inala community.
Her motivation was to break the cycle of young people being excluded from mainstream school, offending, entering the juvenile justice system, being released, re-engaging in mainstream school and being excluded again.
In July 2010, a Memorandum of Understanding was established between Commissioner Robert Atkinson of the QPS and Dale Murray the National Director of EREAFSN to establish a flexible learning outreach.
The outreach was originally run from the Inala PCYC. QPS supported the program with the fulltime secondment of a Police Officer to work in a support capacity.
In 2013 the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board granted the Inala School its secondary school accreditation and thus the original flexible learning outreach formally became a school.
From its humble beginnings, of three staff and nine students, Inala FLC now has 70+ students with a view to growth over the first years of the new site.
Inala FLC is a non-fee paying Catholic school in the Edmund Rice tradition.
