Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn
Catholic Education Office

Visitors to Schools

Related Policies:

Child Protection
Legal Responsibilities and Authority
Occupational Health and Safety

Purpose:

This policy sets out the expectations for behaviours related to people visiting a school.

Policy:

In the interest of promoting positive school profiles and healthy relations with the wider community, schools welcome legitimate visitors. Visits to schools must be managed with care to ensure the rights and safety of students, staff and the visitors are protected and that maximum benefit for all concerned is derived from the experience.

All visitors to schools must be accompanied at all times. Approval for the visit must have been given by the appropriate school authority and all those to be ‘visited' must have been fully informed and have given their assent. As far as possible, visits should not disrupt normal school programs and should be planned in advance.

Safety and duty of care regulations are to be observed at all times.

Definitions:

Visitor – Anyone visiting a school who is not immediately officially involved in the school operation.

Procedures:

Each school is required to develop and implement local procedures for the reception and identification of visitors and for recording their entry to and departure from the school.

Each school should ensure that visitors are not allowed to have unsupervised access to students.

References:

Nil

Forms:

Nil

Last updated on December 2, 2006