Student health, safety, wellbeing and behaviour
The policy information for child safety and wellbeing, and the support of children and students' health needs is below.
Animals in schools
Behaviour and wellbeing
Read about behaviour and wellbeing.
Chaplaincy services in schools
After appropriate consultation with their school community, schools in the Northern Territory may appoint a chaplain to support the provision of pastoral care and emotional wellbeing.
Read about chaplaincy services in schools.
Health of students
- Health of students policy PDF (693.9 KB)
Health of students policy DOCX (50.4 KB) - Health care plan
- Medications for notified conditions
- Anaphylaxis management in schools
- Asthma management in schools
- Condom provision in schools DOCX (56.9 KB)
- Drugs in schools
- Head lice (nits) management
- Infectious diseases – exclusions from school and preschool
- School nutrition and healthy eating
- Sun safety in schools
- Volatile substance abuse (VSA) fact sheet PDF (571.5 KB)
Volatile substance abuse (VSA) fact sheet DOCX (123.9 KB)
Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children
- Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - guidelines PDF (857.6 KB)
Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - guidelines DOCX (1.4 MB) - Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - directors/managers declaration and attendance sheet PDF (434.9 KB)
Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - directors/managers declaration and attendance sheet DOCX (65.4 KB) - Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - principals declaration and attendance sheet PDF (434.2 KB)
Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - principals declaration and attendance sheet DOCX (65.3 KB) - Mandatory reporting of harm and exploitation of children - training presentation 2022 PPTX (1.3 MB)
Personal digital devices in educational environments
The Personal digital devices in educational environments policy replaces the Mobile phones and electronic devices in the school environment policy and guidelines.
The new policy supports schools in developing and implementing local procedures to manage the use of personal digital devices in their educational environments. To assist school principals in consulting with their school community and implementing procedures that consider community input, the department has developed a consultation register template, and a school procedure with acceptable use form, that can be adapted to suit a school’s policy requirements.
Police in schools
Note: This is under review.
The school-based police program was launched in ten government schools at the start of term 4, 2018.
The Department of Education completed a review of the program in 2019 and the police in schools guidelines are currently being redrafted in response to the recommendations of the review.
The 2018 interim guidelines will remain available for reference until the revised guidelines are published.
Recording and reporting student injuries
School sport safety
Sexual behaviour in children
- Sexual behaviour in children guidelines PDF (1.1 MB)
Sexual behaviour in children guidelines DOCX (82.7 KB) - Traffic lights guide to identify sexual behaviours in children and young people JPG (460.5 KB)
- Identification and response to sexual behaviours scenarios DOCX (60.8 KB)
- Information sharing scenario DOCX (60.2 KB)
- Behaviour and support plan template DOCX (43.6 KB)
- Support and safety plan template DOCX (45.9 KB)
- Services that can assist DOCX (60.1 KB)
Last updated: 06 September 2022
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