Student Wellbeing 

We have lots of volunteers and helpers in and around our school and we always need extra assistance for events, classroom helpers, special lunches, and activities such as incursions and excursions. Thank you to everyone who attended the Parent Helpers Information Session. We appreciate you volunteering!

 

Child Safety & Volunteers

Child Safe Standard 8 requires us to ensure that we have appropriate process in place for volunteers working at our school.

 

If you would like to volunteer in any capacity at the school you will be required to:

Have a current "Working With Children Check Victoria" that has been sighted and recorded at the school office, you must carry this card each time you are volunteering at school, sign in and out of the school office each time you are onsite, you will need your WWCC number to enter into the iPad.

 

Standards were introduced on 1 July 2021 and commenced on 1 July 2022.

 

There are 11 Child Safe Standards

Standard 1: Culturally safe environments – Establish a culturally safe environment in which the diverse and unique identities and experiences of Aboriginal children and young people are respected and valued.

Standard 2: Leadership, governance and culture– Ensure that child safety and wellbeing are embedded in school leadership, governance and culture.

Standard 3: Child and student empowerment– Children and young people are empowered about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously.

Standard 4: Family engagement– Families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.

Standard 5: Diversity and equity– Equity is upheld and diverse needs are respected in policy and practice.

Standard 6: Suitable staff and volunteers– People working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice.

Standard 7: Child-focused complaints processes– Ensure that processes for complaints and concerns are child focused.

Standard 8: Child safety knowledge, skills and awareness– Staff and volunteers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children and young people safe through ongoing education and training.

Standard 9: Physical and online environments– Physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed.

Standard 10: Review of child safety practices- Implementation of the Child Safe Standards is regularly reviewed and improved.

Standard 11: Implementation of child safety practices– Policies and procedures that document how schools are safe for children, young people and students.

 

For information about the Victorian Child Safe Standards in Catholic schools, see https://vcea.catholic.edu.au/child-safety.