Child Safe Standards

Child Safe Standard #6:

Strategies to identify and reduce or remove risks of child abuse.

Child Safe Standard 6 requires schools to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate risk management strategies to ensure child safety in school environments.

While risk management assessments and strategies will vary for each school, managing risk typically involves the following steps and considerations.

Identify the school’s child safety risks across the range of school environments (including excursions, camps, online). 

Identify any existing risk mitigation measures or existing controls.

Assess and rate the school’s child safety risks given the existing controls in place, taking into

account the likelihood of risk, and the likely consequence of the risk.

If the risk rating is more than the ‘acceptable level’, identify further risk managementstrategies through additional treatments or other prevention, detection or mitigation strategies and then re-assess the risk (once in place these treatments will then become controls).

Effective risk management strategies are dynamic and change over time as new risks arise and others may no longer be relevant.