Policies
Child Safeguarding
St Joseph’s Nudgee College is committed to providing education and care to children and young people to assist them to develop into high-achieving, supported students, positively connected to each other and to the communities in which they live and which they will serve. St Joseph’s Nudgee College is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people at the College and is dedicated to protecting them from harm.
Edmund Rice Education Australia Child Safety and Safeguarding
St Joseph's Nudgee College Statement to Commitment for Child Safety and Wellbeing
Edmund Rice Education Australia Colleges Ltd Queensland Schools, Student Protection Processes
Edmund Rice Education Australia Colleges Ltd, Queensland Child and Youth Risk Management Strategy
Working with Children (Blue Card) and Child Safe Standards at Nudgee College
Our Commitment to Child Safety
St Joseph’s Nudgee College is part of the Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) network of schools, governed by Edmund Rice Education Australia Colleges Ltd (EREAC). Guided by the values of the Charter for Catholic Schools in the Edmund Rice Tradition, we place the safety, dignity and wellbeing of every young person at the heart of College life.
Together with EREA, we are committed to fostering relationships built on respect, trust and transparency, ensuring every student feels known, valued and supported to grow into the best version of themselves.
Child Safety | Edmund Rice Education Australia
These processes align with:
- the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000 (Qld)
- the Working with Children & Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (Qld)
- the Child Safe Organisations Act 2024 (Qld) and the 10 Child Safe Standards (mandatory from 1 January 2026)
- the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
- the Nudgee College Child and Youth Risk Management Strategy
- the EREA Child Safeguarding Framework
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EREA
As an Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) governed school, St Joseph's Nudgee College complies with several policies which are in accord with the EREA Charter and underpinned by EREA core values.
EREA Reconciliation Commitment
EREA Colleges Ltd Complaints Handling Policy
Admissions
Year 5 Catholic Boys School Agreement
To keep offer timing consistent, Catholic Boys Schools have changed their enrolment procedures so they send offers of places at their Colleges during the last week of Term 3. All responses are due back the first week of Term 4.
Read more here.
General Collection Notice
This Collection Notice explains in general terms how we protect the privacy of the personal information you provide when you are enrolling your child or your child is enrolled at the College.
Learning and Teaching
Student Formation - Day and Boarding
Privacy
EREA and St Joseph's Nudgee College is committed to protecting personal privacy and recognises that staff and students have a reasonable expectation that EREA and Nudgee College will protect and appropriately manage the personal information it holds about them. This Policy and the accompanying Procedures outline the circumstances in which we obtain personal information, how we use and disclose that information and how we manage requests to access and/or change that information.
St Joseph's Nudgee College Complaints Policy & Procedures
For further information about this policy or your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer, Deputy Principal Mr Stephen Meara on privacyofficer@nudgee.qld.edu.au or (07) 3865 0555.
Overseas Students
Please read all of the policies associated with Overseas Admissions on this page.
Parent and Visitor Code of Conduct
This Code of Conduct is intended to guide parents and guardians in their dealings with staff, other parents, students and the wider school community. It articulates the College’s key expectations of both staff and parents with regard to respectful relationships and behaviours. It also specifies the College’s position with regard to unacceptable behaviours that breach our culture of respect.
Registered Training Organisation Complaints and Appeals Policy
This policy and procedure provides clear and practical guidelines to ensure that complaints and appeals received about the Registered Training Organisation (RTO), about and from students, trainers, staff and/or third parties can be resolved equitably and efficiently, and in accordance with the principles of natural justice.