Child Safety

Child Safety Standard 1- Cultural safety

This standard requires schools to make sure Aboriginal children and young people feel safe.

This guidance applies to all schools, even if there are no students who have identified themselves as Aboriginal.

The term ‘Aboriginal’ includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is important to be respectful of how individual children, students, their families and community refer to themselves and use appropriate language.

Cultural safety includes being provided with a safe, nurturing and positive environment where Aboriginal children:

• feel comfortable being themselves
• feel comfortable expressing their culture, including their spiritual and belief systems
• are supported by carers who respect their Aboriginality and encourage their sense of self and identity.

Please find the link to our Child Safety and Wellbeing policy here.

School Event Photography

We understand that families like to take photos/videos as a lasting memory during school events, however, in line with Child Safe requirements, we kindly ask that you only photograph/video your own child/ren.

School Bathrooms

We ask that any parents, adults or non-students needing to use the bathroom during drop-off or pick-up time use the bathrooms in the school Admin area. To be sure we are creating a safe school environment, bathrooms within the school grounds are to be used by Harvest Home students only.