Children have the right to be safe and protected at school.
Fitzroy Primary School is committed to providing an environment where students are safe and feel safe. We have a zero tolerance for child abuse and are committed to protecting children from harm.
Our comprehensive child safety framework outlines our school’s strategies to support student safety and wellbeing. The framework includes the following policies, codes, and procedures:
- Complaints Policy
- Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
- Bullying Prevention Policy
- Volunteers Policy
- Visitors Policy
- Digital Learning Policy
- Yard Duty and Supervision Policy
Our students and their families are important partners in keeping our students safe. We value feedback and ideas on how we can continuously strengthen our child safety framework.
If you have any suggestions or comments please contact the Principal on 03 9417 4222
To create and maintain a child safe organisation Fitzroy Primary School will be implementing, each of the standards as below:
Culturally Safe E – Establish a culturally safe environment in which the diverse and unique identities and experiences of Aboriginal children and young people are respected and valued.
Leadership, Governance and C – Ensure that child safety and wellbeing are embedded in school leadership, governance and culture.
Child & Student E – Children and young people are empowered about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously.
Family E – Families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.
Diversity & E – Equity is upheld and diverse needs are respected in policy and practice.
Suitable Staff & V – People working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice.
Child-Focused Complaints P – Ensure that processes for complaints and concerns are child focused.
Child Safety Knowledge, Skills & A – Staff and volunteers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children and young people safe through ongoing education and training.
Physical & Online E – Physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed.
Review of Child Safety P – Implementation of the Child Safe Standards is regularly reviewed and improved.
Implementation of Child Safety P – Policies and procedures that document how schools are safe for children, young people and students.
Below is a snapshot of ways Fitzroy Primary School have in the past, are currently and will in to the future, embed the Child Safety Standards:
- Development and implementation of a Child Safety Policy.
- Zero tolerance of Child abuse.
- School Values and Rights and Responsibilities that guide the school.
- An effective Student Engagement & Well Being Policy.
- Promotion of standards via newsletter and website.
- Provide and deliver an engaging curriculum.
- Have clearly defined roles within the school.
- Provide supervision of students (from 8:45am – 3:45pm).
- Planning across the school.
- Procedures for first aid, mandatory reporting, etc.
- Behaviour expectations from the staff, students and families.
- Effective review practices of programs and policies.
- The school will support or assist children and families who disclose on a case by case issue.
- When advertising a job that has child-connected work, the jobs requirements, duties and responsibilities include Child Safety and essential qualifications, experience and attributes to Child Safety. DET recruitment online will implement this.
- Induction process outlines Child Safety practices including Code of Conduct.
- The school makes reasonable efforts to gather, verify and record information about a person whom it proposes to engage to perform child-connected work (Working with Children Check, Police Check etc).
- Appropriate Supervision of the above mentioned is in place.
- School Council endorsed policies related to Fitzroy Primary School’s commitment to Child Safety.