Child Safety Standards
Child Safety Standards @ Chilwell PS
Chilwell Primary School has always set high standards and expectations to ensure our school is a safe, happy and productive environment. During 2016, the new Child Safe Standards were released and upon self reflection as a school, we are in a great place with a lot of the work we have done and continue to do. We hope this page helps you and the wider community become more familiar with the Standards, what your role is within the community and how we as a school continue to work towards these standards.
Extracted from Ministerial Order No. 870
To create and maintain a child safe organisation Chilwell Primary School will be implementing, reviewing and improving each of the standards as below:
Standard 1 – strategies to embed an organisational culture of child safety, including through effective leadership arrangements
Standard 2 – Develop, implement and review a child safe policy or statement of commitment to child safety
Standard 3 – Review current code of conduct so that it establishes clear expectations for appropriate behaviour with children
Standard 4 – Implement appropriate screening, supervision, training and other human resources practices that reduce the risk of child abuse by new and existing personnel
Standard 5 – Continue to develop and implement processes for responding to and reporting suspected child abuse in line with DET
Standard 6 – Implement recommended strategies to identify and reduce or remove risks of child abuse
Standard 7 – Further develop strategies to promote the participation and empowerment of children.
- Development and implementation of a Child Safety Policy via School Council .
- Zero tolerance of Child abuse – all staff are trained in Mandatory Reporting annually
- Development of CPS Statement of Values that guide the school community
- An effective Student Engagement & Well Being Policy
- Promotion of standards via newsletter and website
- Provide and deliver an engaging curriculum
- Have clearly defined roles within the school
- Provide supervision of students (from 8:45am – 3:45pm) – A Yard Duty Roster is implemented each school day.
- Planning across the school
- Procedures for first aid and medications, mandatory reporting, etc.
- Behavior expectations from the staff, students and families
- Effective review of practices of programs and policies
- Links to Child Safe Standards on Website
- Fortnightly staff meetings have “Welfare” on the Agenda with actions to follow through
- The school will support or assist children and families who disclose on a case by case issue
- “Code of Coduct” published on our website.
- When advertising a job that has child-connected work, the jobs requirements, duties and responsibilities include Child Safety and essential qualifications, experience and attributes to Child Safety. DET recruitment online will implement this.
- Induction process outlines Child Safety practices including “Code of Conduct”
- The school makes reasonable efforts to gather, verify and record information about a person whom it proposes to engage to perform child-connected work (Working With Children Check, Police Check etc) School Policy for Working with Children
- Appropriate Supervision of the above mentioned is in place
- The School Council will endorsed clear procedures for responding to allegations of suspected child abuse
Other Resources and links:
- Victorian Department of Education & Training: Parents
- Child Protection Protocol
- Child Protection: Reporting Obligations
- Apply for a Working With Children Check
- VRQA Child safe resources
- Chilwell Primary School Policies
- Safe schools hub for parents & students
- child safe standard 5_warning signs for school staff
- child safe standard 5_parents protecting
- child safe standard 5_feeling safe primary school
If there are any resources you would like us to add to this page, please contact the Office and let us know.