Discussion Prompt 6 Child Safe Standard 7 Participation and empowerment of children The Royal Commission has commissioned research by the Institute of Child Protection Studies. This research took the form of an online survey completed by 1480 young Australians. The survey addressed two main research questions: 1. What are children and young person’s perceptions of safety within institutions? 2. What do children and young people consider is already being done to respond to safety issues and risks in institutions? A summary of the key research findings can be found in the from the Institute of Child Protection Studies. Discussion Points How does our school involve students when making decisions about issues that affect them? • What have our students had in the development of our school’s child safe policy and statement of • commitment? How do our students concerns about issues that affect them? How does our school respond to these • concerns? Do our students feel like they are valued, and that opinions matter? How do we know? • Do we know what the safety concerns of our students are? • How can we elicit information about what makes our students feel safe? • What are the strategies our students have identified they use in situations where they feel unsafe? How • can our school implement these? Resources can be found in the Institute of . How does our school deliver appropriate education about: • standards of behaviour for students attending the school healthy and respectful relationships (including sexuality) resilience child abuse awareness and prevention? , clause 13(1). How does our school promote the child safety standards in ways that are readily accessible, easy to • understand, and user friendly to children? , clause 13(2). How can we encourage students to report their safety concerns? Could we do this better? •
Discussion Prompt 6 Child Safe Standard 7 Participation and empowerment of children The Royal Commission has commissioned research by the Institute of Child Protection Studies. This research took the form of an online survey completed by 1480 young Australians. The survey addressed two main research questions: 1. What are children and young person’s perceptions of safety within institutions? 2. What do children and young people consider is already being done to respond to safety issues and risks in institutions? A summary of the key research findings can be found in the from the Institute of Child Protection Studies. Discussion Points • How does our school involve students when making decisions about issues that affect them? • What have our students had in the development of our school’s child safe policy and statement of commitment? • How do our students concerns about issues that affect them? How does our school respond to these concerns? • Do our students feel like they are valued, and that opinions matter? How do we know? • Do we know what the safety concerns of our students are? • How can we elicit information about what makes our students feel safe? • What are the strategies our students have identified they use in situations where they feel unsafe? How can our school implement these? Resources can be found in the Institute of . • How does our school deliver appropriate education about: standards of behaviour for students attending the school healthy and respectful relationships (including sexuality) resilience child abuse awareness and prevention? , clause 13(1). • How does our school promote the child safety standards in ways that are readily accessible, easy to understand, and user friendly to children? , clause 13(2). • How can we encourage students to report their safety concerns? Could we do this better?
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