Our College has a Child Safe Team that meets once a term to monitor the implementation of the Child Safe Standards especially in relation to building a child safe culture, monitoring risks, processes of responding to and reporting disclosures and the empowerment and engagement of young people. Carmel Thomas, one of our parents will be joining the team in Term 1.
At our recent meeting we considered some of the findings of the research report ‘Taking us seriously: children and young people talk about safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns.’ There were many areas that resonated with the work we are doing in this space.
Parents and community members are reminded that they can also report a concern. Our process can be found below in a flowchart suggested by the Commission for Children and Young People.