This year, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) has launched a new child-safe campaign and website called MACS Care. The purpose of this is to assist schools in continuing to build a child safety culture and maintain compliance with the Victorian Child Safe Standards.
The MACS care website includes a number of resources and templates to guide schools throughout the year as they focus on all 11 standards each month.
This month, we will be focussing on Child Safe Standard 7: Processes for complaints and concerns are child-focused.
As part of our mission as a Catholic school, we have a moral and legal responsibility to promote the safety and wellbeing of young people in our care. We are committed to ensuring that families, students and those in our community are able to raise complaints and concerns respectfully and ensure they are listened to. As a College we will also ensure that families, staff and students have an understanding of how to access child-focused complaint processes.
I encourage you to read the Newsletter Child Safe Standard 7 which will give you a better understanding of what our College do to ensure our students are safe and the processes involved in making Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs a child safe school.