Victoria's New Child Safety Standards

This week we will look at:

Child Safe Standard 2: 

Leadership, governance and culture

Schools must ensure that child safety and wellbeing is embedded in school leadership, governance and culture

• School leaders and governing authorities have a vital role in establishing:
  • a culture where child abuse and harm is not tolerated
  • effective systems and processes to implement child safe policies and practices and manage child abuse risks

• Schools must take deliberate steps to promote child safety and wellbeing and protect children by:
  • embedding and promoting a child safety culture at all levels
  • school leaders actively modelling such a culture
  • ensuring transparent governance arrangements