Student Safety
Our Commitment
Student Safety and Wellbeing Statement
We are deeply committed to fostering a culture of safety and wellbeing across our school. This culture is built on input from students, staff, families and the wider community ensuring that students are supported to speak up, share their views and play an active role in shaping their own experience, especially in matters that affect them directly.
Ballarat Grammar maintains a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child abuse and actively implements measures to identify and manage any risks of harm to students within our school environment. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people are central and fundamental responsibilities of the School. We are firmly committed to fostering a child-safe culture that provides an environment where students are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices heard in decisions that affect their lives. Ballarat Grammar values diversity and strictly prohibits any racist or discriminatory practices. All members of our school community share the responsibility to care for children and young people by promptly raising any concerns regarding their safety, promoting their wellbeing, and protecting them from all forms of harm or abuse.
Online Reporting
Confidential or Anonymous Reporting
Child safety is everyone’s responsibility. We support all members of our community, including children and their parents, to feel confident and comfortable in reporting any allegations of child abuse or any child safety concerns.
It is important that you report any child safety concern as soon as you:
- Witness an incident of child abuse.
- Receive a disclosure about child abuse.
- Form a reasonable belief that a child has been abused or is in danger of being abused.
- Notice an environmental safety issue.
Report any child safety concerns by completing the Safer Communities incident report.
Acknowledgement of Country
Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Grammar School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we learn, live and work, the Wadawurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Commitment to Child Safety
Ballarat Grammar maintains a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child abuse and actively implements measures to identify and manage any risks of harm to students within our school environment. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people are central and fundamental responsibilities of the School. We are firmly committed to fostering a child-safe culture that provides an environment where students are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices heard in decisions that affect their lives. Ballarat Grammar values diversity and strictly prohibits any racist or discriminatory practices. All members of our school community share the responsibility to care for children and young people by promptly raising any concerns regarding their safety, promoting their wellbeing, and protecting them from all forms of harm or abuse.
