Child Safety: Standard 9

Child Safe Standard 9 “Physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed.” 

As Catholic educators, we have a moral, mission-driven, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and wellbeing of every student entrusted to our care. Our commitment to child safety includes creating and maintaining safe physical spaces and responsible online environments where children can learn, play, and connect with confidence. 

This means thoughtfully designing school spaces, supervising activities, and using digital technologies in ways that protect children’s dignity, privacy, and wellbeing. By actively identifying and reducing risks in both physical and online settings, our schools foster environments where children feel safe, supported, and able to thrive. 

Child safety is not only reflected in policies, but in everyday practices, supervision, and decision-making across the school community. 

This newsletter series provides an overview of what the Child Safe Standards are, how they help keep children and young people safe, and how schools governed by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) are prioritising and achieving this.