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Student Wellbeing and Safety
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Student Wellbeing and Safety
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- Strengthened this topic as an introduction to the section, and included legislative requirements for student wellbeing and safety.
- Reformatted this topic to show child protection-related topics and general safety-related topics.
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Child Protection
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- Made significant changes to the content and format of this topic to highlight legislative requirements for schools regarding child protection, and provide an overview of the school's child protection procedures.
- Related topics that were previously included in a table in this topic have been removed, and further detail about related information has been provided in the topic.
- Created a concern response overview, with links to more detailed information within other topics in this section.
- Clarified responsibilities of staff and the board, as well as reinforcing community involvement in child protection.
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Abuse Recognition and Reporting
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- Highlighted the legislative requirements for abuse indicators and reporting.
- Included an overview of abuse response procedures.
- Added two new documents to this topic, which replace the previous Definitions and Indicators of Child Abuse/Neglect/Family Violence topic.
- Clarified information about disclosure and information management.
- Added a new section to this topic about allegations against staff members.
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Definitions and Indicators of Child Abuse/Neglect/Family Violence
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- This topic is obsolete. It has been replaced with documents in Abuse Recognition and Reporting.
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Staff Responsibilities for Child Protection (previously called Care and Management of Students)
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- Updated the information in this topic and included information from the previous Safe Practice Professional Development topic, which will become obsolete.
- Created new headings within this topic to show how the school puts safeguards in place within their employment procedures and child protection training.
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Safe Practice Professional Development
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- This topic is obsolete. We've included information in this topic in the new Staff Responsibilities for Child Protection topic.
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Sharing Information
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- This topic was previously removed and information was moved into other related topics, but following review of this subject matter we have reinstated the topic within the Privacy section.
- Added information about informing students if their information is intended to be shared.
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Supporting Student Wellbeing
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- Strengthened the introduction with reference to relevant legislation and have added more information about the whole-school wellbeing approach to promote wellbeing and school pastoral care.
- Split the topic and created a new topic to cover information about how to respond to student wellbeing concerns.
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Responding to Student Wellbeing Concerns
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- This is a new topic that includes content about responding to low and high-risk student wellbeing concerns.
- It contains content that was previously in Supporting Student Wellbeing.
- This topic includes links to relevant topics such as Abuse Recognition and Reporting, Self-Harm, and Preventing and Responding to Suicide.
- It covers content about recording wellbeing concerns.
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Self-harm
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- Added content about evidence of self-harm, the difference between privacy and confidentiality, recording self-harm concerns, and support for others.
- Improved the structure and flow of this topic.
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Preventing and Responding to Suicide
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- Strengthened the introduction and structure of the topic.
- Added more content about preventing suicide and what to do in the event of a suicide/death.
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Sexual Behaviour in Students
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- Added legislation to strengthen this policy and explain its purpose.
- Clarified the differences between normal sexual behaviour and concerning or harmful sexual behaviour and have added content about sexual harassment and violence.
- Moved content about managing concerning behaviour and issues to a new topic.
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Responding to Sexual Behaviour Concerns and Incidents
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- This new topic is about responding to sexual behaviour concerns and incidents. It contains some content that was previously in Sexual Behaviour in Students.
- It expands on support for those with concerning behaviour and added information about support for affected students.
- It clarifies recording and reporting processes.
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