Compensation refers to remedies provided when a student has been harmed because a school failed to meet its legal obligations—particularly the duty to accommodate disability and provide equitable access to education. When discrimination or significant failures occur, compensation may be ordered to recognise the impact on the student and family and to help repair the harm. Compensation can take different forms. In some cases, it may include financial damages awarded through a legal process such as a human rights complaint. In other situations, compensation may involve practical remedies designed to restore lost opportunities—for example, additional services, tutoring, counselling, or funding for supports that were not provided when they should have been. Many families do not realise that harm caused by a school system can give rise to compensation. When accommodations are repeatedly not implemented, when a student is excluded from learning because their disability-related needs were ignored, or when a child experiences significant psychological harm linked to discrimination, legal remedies may be available. Compensation is not about punishment. It is a recognition that the student experienced a loss—educational, emotional, or developmental—and that systems have a responsibility to repair that harm as much as possible.