Child Safeguarding​

St Joseph's College Commitment to Child Safeguarding affirms our commitment to:

• embed a culture of 'no tolerance' for child abuse

• listen to and empower children and young people

• keep children and young people safe

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Child Protection

St Joseph's College is committed to child strategies and procedures to ensure the care, safety and protection of all children and young people in our school across two campuses and safeguarding children and young people against sexual, physical, psychological and emotional abuse and/or neglect.

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Victorian Child Safe Standards

St Joseph's College is committed to the wellbeing and protection of all children and complying with Ministerial Order 1359 - Implementing the Child Safe Standards - Managing the risk of child abuse in schools and school boarding premises and following the Victorian Child Safe Standards.

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Child Safety also considers the diversity of all children, including (but not limited to) Aboriginal children, children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, children with a disability, children who are unable to live at home, international students and students of diverse sexuality.

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Prevention and Response

Preventing and responding to child abuse requires a whole of community response to bring about broad cultural change. To this end, the Victorian Child Safe Standards apply to a broad range of organisations that provide services for children, including schools, churches, sporting clubs and youth services.

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Ensuring we have child safe communities goes to the heart of our faith and core purpose. Therefore, we are dedicated to upholding the values and practices that create safe learning environments for students.