Child Safety

Student Safety and Wellbeing Commitment Statement

We are committed to creating and maintaining a student safety and wellbeing culture, with input from the entire School community, where students are encouraged to talk openly and share their views, particularly about matters that directly impact them.  Through our processes and practices, we ensure that a student safety and wellbeing culture is championed and modelled at all levels of the School, from the top down to the bottom up.  Student safety and wellbeing are embedded in our school leadership, governance and culture.

The School seeks to deliver a student safety and wellbeing environment which supports and respects every student, including in particular the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, students from culturally and/or diverse backgrounds, and students with a disability or who are otherwise vulnerable (including students who identify as LGBTQIA+ and those with challenging home situations).

We have zero tolerance for child abuse and reportable conduct.  The School regards its student safety and wellbeing responsibilities with the utmost importance:

• The School aims to ensure students (and their parents) are provided with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand and maintain a student’s own personal safety and wellbeing.
• The School aims to ensure that staff are provided with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand and maintain a student and culturally safe environment.
• The School promotes its student safety and wellbeing practices to students in ways that are readily accessible, easy to understand and user-friendly.

Each member of the School community has an individual and collective responsibility to understand the important and specific role we each have, and to ensure that the safety and wellbeing of all students is at the forefront of all that we do and every decision that we make.

Our policies

St Michael’s is a sector leader in child safety and respectful relationships, procedures, policies and lived experience. In line with our position as a sector leader in child safety, we have a zero-tolerance policy for child abuse and other harm, including historic abuse. As part of our ongoing commitment to child safety, we are dedicated to providing the necessary resources for students and their families to maintain our child-safe culture. You can find out more about our child safety policy here.

For more information about our Wellbeing Curriculum, which includes details on interventions and support, external programs and partnerships, parent engagement, and our curriculum, please visit the link here.