Anti-Bullying

Policy

One World Children’s Centre believes that maintaining a high standard of duty of care and best practice is important. We achieve this by implementing realistic and child focused rules/limits. These rules are in place for the welfare, safety, comfort and harmony of children and staff. We provide a happy and fun atmosphere in order for all children to grow and develop in a relaxed and secure learning environment. Bullying of any kind is unacceptable at One World Children’s Centre.

It is our policy that continued unacceptable bullying or aggressive behaviour from a child attending One World Children’s Centre, causing physical or emotional harm or distress to any child or staff member, will lose their One World placement for the benefit and wellbeing of all in attendance at the Centre.

Prior consultation with the parent / guardian addressing positive behaviour management guidelines, techniques and strategies would have been exhausted.

Cancellation of the child’s booking is at the Managing Directors discretion. We at One World Children’s centre will exhaust all avenues of dealing with bullying before we would ask for your child to have some time away from the centre

Procedure

Children are encouraged to help set the rules/limits, such as room rules and outside rules and rules for acceptable behavior.
Staff to be effective role models for the children and to guide children with positive re- enforcement.
Staff to be approachable and to teach the children empathy for each other and to understand what bullying is and that it is unacceptable.
Team Leaders to observe, monitor and record the child’s behaviour while respectively and sensitively gathering information from the parents hopefully revealing some facts as to why the child is behaving in an unacceptable way.
Team Leader and program coordinator will privately consult with the parents about the concerns and suggest to the parent that we work together for a positive, behavioural technique and plan that is suitable for home and can be followed through while the child is attending the centre.
The Team Leader with the program co-ordinator and the director will develop a behaviour management plan detailing specific strategies that staff will put into practice immediately.
Team Leader and program coordinator in consultation with the Director and the child’s parents seek outside professional support.
If all behaviour management strategies have been exhausted and the child is demonstrating bullying or aggressive behaviour, causing physical or emotional harm or distress to any child or staff member, the Director will communicate with the family to inform them that their child is to have some time away from the centre while outside professionals are consulted.

Resource

Saifer Steffen, 1990, Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Early Childhood Teachers Manual,St Paul, Minn,

Linke Pam;Dealing with bullying together: Prevention and resolution, 2009

National Network for Child Care – Child Care Center Connections Volume 12 Issue 1 2003 – Teasing and Bullying

Managing bullying in child care – a NCAC Factsheet for Families; Dr Anne Kennedy

Source

Early Childhood Australia- Dealing with bullying together: prevention and resolution 2009

Putting Children First – Issue 30^th June 2009, page 12-14

Preventing and addressing bullying at work – Work Safe Edition No2 February 2009

One World Management Team

Website: Parents Forum 2009

One World Children’s Centre Philosophy

www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au

wwwncac.gov.au/factsheets/bullying

One World Children’s Centre staff forum May 2009

One World Children’s Centre parent forum May 2009