Western Heights College Newsletter

Child Safety at WHC

Western Heights College is a child safe organisation committed to protecting students from all forms of abuse.

Our college has stringent protocols in place and endeavours at all times to be fully compliant with the Child Safe Standards set out under Ministerial Order 1359.

Our college has the following documents and policies in place to achieve compliance with the Standards. All of these documents are available for downloading on our website.

 

1.       Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy

2.       Child Safety Code of Conduct Policy

3.       Child Safety Responding and Reporting Obligations Policy and Procedures

 

* If you have any concerns or feedback for our current child safety policies, please email them through to info@whc.vic.edu.au

 

Annual privacy policy reminder for 2025

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or were permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy (found on the college's webpage).

Please take time to remind yourself of our school’s collection notice, found on our website.

We ask parents to also review the guidance we provide on how we use Google Workspace for Education safely at the school and what parents can do to further protect their child’s information. If after reviewing the guidance, you have any questions or concerns regarding your child using Google Workspace for Education, please contact the school.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents and carers. This information is also available in 10 community languages:

* Amharic

* Arabic

* Dari

* Gujarati

* Mandarin

* Somali

* Sudanese

* Turkish

* Urdu

* Vietnamese