All Saints Pre School is committed to Child Safety and has zero tolerance for child abuse. We systematically develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate risk management strategies to ensure our children are safe in all our learning environments, in line with the Victorian Child Safe Standards:
As a result, we regularly take actions, including:
• background and suitability checks of staff and volunteers
• codes of conduct for staff and volunteers
• training and supervision of staff and volunteers
• documented risk assessments for activities
• clear procedures for reporting and acting on any concerns or allegations
• commitment to listening to children and encouraging them to speak up if they don’t feel safe.
All Saints Pre School’s commitment to child safety
All Saints Pre School is committed to child safety and regard our child protection responsibilities with the utmost importance.
We want children to be safe, happy, and empowered.
We are committed to ensuring that children can actively participate in decisions that affect their lives.
We support and respect all children, as well as our educators and volunteers.
We have zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently with our policies and procedures.
We have legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety, which we follow rigorously.
All Saints Pre School is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early and removing and reducing these risks.
All Saints Pre School follows recruitment practices to reduce the risk of child abuse by new and existing committee members, educators, and volunteers.
All Saints Pre School is committed to regularly training and educating our committee members, educators, and volunteers on child abuse risks.
We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for gender-diverse children and children with a disability. We have specific policies and procedures in place that support our committee members, educators, and volunteers to achieve these commitments.