Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum

Nemarluk School delivers the Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) to support students in developing the knowledge and skills they need to stay safe.

The KS:CPC is a respectful relationships and child safety curriculum that teaches all children and young people they have the right to be safe and they can help themselves to be safe by talking to people they trust. The KS:CPC is delivered by teachers to children and young people each year from Age 3 to 17+. Teachers who deliver the curriculum complete training in its use. The KS:CPC fits primarily within health and wellbeing but can be taught across multiple learning areas.

The program teaches students that everyone has the right to be safe and encourages them to recognise unsafe situations and seek help from trusted adults. Lessons are taught in age-appropriate and accessible ways, using visual supports, discussion and practical activities to suit the diverse learning needs of our students.

Through this curriculum, students learn about respectful relationships, personal boundaries and protective strategies, helping to build their confidence, wellbeing and safety both at school and in the wider community.

Why is child protection important?

Protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people is a fundamental responsibility that cannot be compromised by other considerations.

All children and young people have a right to:

be treated with respect and to be protected from harm
be asked to express their views and wishes about matters affecting their lives and to have those
views appropriately considered by adults
feel and be safe in their interactions with adults and other children and young people
understand, as early as possible, what is meant by ‘feeling and being safe’
the support of staff in their education or care environment whose role includes being an advocate for their safety and wellbeing.