Child Protection and Safeguarding
Chadwick International is committed to promoting and protecting every child’s right to physical and psychological safety and well-being. Abuse, neglect, exploitation, and other forms of harm are unacceptable. The School recognizes its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and young people within its community and is committed to maintaining policies, procedures, and practices that prevent harm, promote a safe environment, and ensure an appropriate response whenever a safeguarding concern arises.
Chadwick International’s safeguarding and child protection policies are informed by Korean law and internationally recognized children’s rights frameworks. Korea’s Child Welfare Act requires designated professionals and others whose work brings them into contact with children to report suspected child abuse. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes internationally recognized rights and principles concerning the protection, well-being, and best interests of children. Together, these documents provide a legal and rights-based foundation for safeguarding and child protection at Chadwick International.
All students enrolled at Chadwick International are covered by the school’s safeguarding and child protection policies, regardless of age. Every student has the right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and other forms of harm.
Child abuse, neglect, and exploitation include any act, attempted act, omission, pattern of behaviour, or failure to act that causes harm or creates a reasonably foreseeable risk of physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, or developmental harm. Harm may result from a single incident or a pattern of conduct; occur in person or online, within or outside the home or school; and be caused by an adult or another child.
Safeguarding concerns may include, but are not limited to, physical abuse; emotional or psychological abuse; sexual abuse; neglect; sexual or commercial sexual exploitation; trafficking; criminal or economic exploitation; grooming; online abuse; identity-based or discriminatory abuse; child-on-child abuse; and harmful sexual behaviour. These forms of harm may overlap and should not be understood as mutually exclusive.
