Our commitment
Everyone at our school is committed to using every means to ensure healthy and safe environments where the dignity of every person is respected and promoted, especially that of each minor who studies at our school.
Today more than ever, we know that abuse, regardless of its nature, causes deep pain and harms the person who has suffered it, their family and society as a whole. This awareness has led us not only to have a Policy on the matter, but to ensure that every staff member, without exception, knows it, understands it and lives it at all times.
Our Safe Environments Policy includes principles, rules and procedures to guarantee a safe environment and thereby prevent any situation of abuse. The Policy has three sections:
A code of conduct for everyone who interacts with minors, aimed at safeguarding the physical, sexual, psychological and social integrity of every minor at school.
A clear procedure to follow for reporting and addressing violations of the established code of conduct.
An implementation and verification guide for the Safe Environments Policy, so that it is lived out and the suitability of staff to work with minors is reviewed.
All staff who work at our schools are properly trained in the policy, which means they understand the seriousness of abuse, actively work to prevent situations that could put students at risk and, should there be any report of abuse or a violation of the code of conduct, know how to act with clear procedures that first seek to stop it and then proceed as required by the laws of the country.
Each school has a designated Safe Environments Officer who is primarily responsible for ensuring that staff are properly trained and that the Policy is properly applied. To fulfill this role, they receive ongoing training and supervision from the Safe Environments area of the Semper Altius Network of Schools.
Prevention involves all of us. If you have any message about something that worries or concerns you regarding Safe Environments at our school, we invite you to contact us:
Principles
We emphasize our commitment to protecting each of our students by providing them with a healthy and safe environment.
We recognize that child sexual abuse causes deep harm to the person who experiences it, to their family and to society as a whole, and that no one should ever go through it.
We condemn any type of abuse regardless of who commits it, and we emphatically reject any cover-up.
We have a Safe Environments Policy that sets out principles, rules and procedures to achieve a safe environment.
We make sure that both our facilities and the school's daily practices foster a culture of prevention.
We select our staff under strict hiring policies focused on determining each candidate's suitability to work with minors.
We act under a code of conduct that guides how an adult must treat and behave with minors, and we make sure that all employees, priests and consecrated personnel sign it as a sign of commitment.
We have clear procedures, known by the whole community, for reporting any violation of the code of conduct and/or suspected abuse.
We recognize that child sexual abuse is a serious crime and we accept our responsibility to report any suspected abuse to the competent civil authorities.
