Child Safe

All children have rights, no matter who they are. This includes the right to be safe and feel safe and to have your say in decisions impacting you. At Our Lady's, we actively promote the Child Safe standards in our school and in our community.

Children have the right to feel safe and be safe

When children are away from home, like at school, playing sport, on camp, living with other carers or at the doctor, the adults looking after them have to follow the rules and keep them safe.

Being safe means they are free from abuse, harassment, discrimination or inappropriate behaviour. Feeling safe means a child is comfortable in the places where they spend time and trust the adults around them.

Children have a right to:

• be safe and feel safe wherever they are
• expect that the adults around them are keeping them safe
• be given information about how to raise a safety concern
• be listened to and for action to be taken if they have a safety concern.