Children and young people are an important part of our RMIT community – as enrolled students, in our onsite childcare, as visitors to campus and as participants in research.
All RMIT employees, students, contractors, volunteers, associates, and extended members of the RMIT community are responsible for the protection of children.
RMIT does not tolerate any form of child abuse, maltreatment, or neglect. We recognise that every child has the right to feel safe, live in a safe environment and be protected from neglect or abuse.
In response to the Victorian Government’s Child Safe Standards, RMIT’s Child Safety Framework sets out the requirements that all members of our University community must follow to prevent child abuse and promote child well-being
The Framework details RMIT’s committment to:
| In case of immediate danger call the Police on 000, and contact Campus Security |
RMIT continues to strengthen its commitment to ensuring a Child Safe environment and to promote the safety and well-being of children and young people by embedding the Child Safe Principles into teaching and learning activities and in well-being spaces.
The University has embedded Child Safety governance and the Child Safety Framework to define our responsibilities in the child safe space, continuing to strengthen the embedding of child safe culture and the establishment of child safe recruitment practices,
Safer Community is RMIT’s primary reporting and response service for staff and students wanting to report and access support for child safety concerns.
All students, staff and associates of RMIT University must follow the Child Safe Reporting Procedure (or in Vietnam, the Child Safe Reporting Procedure for Vietnam).
The Child Safe Reporting Instruction explains how to identify and respond to concerns for the safety of a child/young person at RMIT. Content warning - this instruction includes explicit descriptions of abuse and may be distressing to read.
Reportable child safety concerns include but are not limited to:
Senior Advisor, Child Safe via Safer Community:
Safer Community checks emails, phone messages and submitted support request forms daily from Monday to Friday.
Please note that Safer Community is not an emergency service. If you or others feel at risk or consider the situation to be an emergency, phone 000. If you are on campus, contact Campus Security.
RMIT is committed to ensuring that children/young people are empowered about their rights and participate in decisions affecting them, and to ensuring that families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.
We encourage you to provide your feedback around child safety at RMIT.
Use the Child Safety at RMIT Feedback Form to tell us what you think.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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