Volunteer responsibilities

Volunteer responsibilities for keeping students safe, and our school’s child safety policies and procedures

This section focuses on our school’s key child safety policies, statements and procedures.

These documents set out our school’s commitment and approach to keeping children, young people and students safe in our school environment.

As volunteers working in our school environment, it’s important that you are familiar with these policies and your responsibilities to keep children safe.

Volunteers must be familiar with and follow our school’s:

Volunteers Policy
Child Safety Code of Conduct
Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
Procedures for responding to incidents, disclosures and suspicions of child abuse

Volunteers Policy

Bell PS Policies

Our school’s Volunteers Policy sets out the procedures to make sure that volunteers are suitable to work with children and can make a positive contribution to our school community. The policy outlines:

Suitability checks required for volunteers which usually include:
- Working with Children Check (WWCC)
- Other suitability checks which may be needed based on the volunteer role, such as references, proof of identity, qualifications and work history involving children
Our volunteer training and induction processes
Management and supervision arrangements
Volunteer obligations relating to privacy, information sharing and record keeping.