South Australian Child Safe Environments Requirements for Non-Government Schools

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South Australian Child Safe Environments Requirements for Non-Government Schools

31/01/17

South Australian non-government schools face an almost overwhelming myriad of legal and regulatory obligations and reporting requirements.

Arguably, one of the key areas of compliance for schools is child protection, and in particular, the obligation under section 8C of the Children’s Protection Act 1993 (SA) (CPA) to establish and maintain child safe environments at the school.

To comply with the obligations under the CPA, schools must have in place policies and procedures for ensuring that:

appropriate reports of abuse or neglect are made; and
child safe environments are established and maintained.

The Child Safe Environments Principles of Good Practice (Principles of Good Practice) are seven principles which were developed by Families SA to help schools create a child safe environment. The seven Principles are explained in section 4 of this Paper.

Detailed planning and allocation of appropriate resources within a school is required to ensure compliance with the CPA, the Principles of Good Practice and other legal and regulatory child protection requirements in South Australia.

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