ISOC takes our moral and legal responsibility to safeguard the welfare of students seriously and has committed to rigorous systems, practices, and policies to prevent and respond to student harm that arises. We recognise that students need the foundation of a healthy, safe, and supportive school environment to ensure opportunities are optimal for learning and growing into their best school-age selves and that school-wide safeguarding policies and practices have a significant role to play in creating and sustaining an emotionally and physically safe and healthy environment.

The International School of Constanta firmly believes in the right of every child, regardless of ability, ethnicity, faith, gender, sexuality, and culture, to feel safe and protected from harm. We recognize that as a school, we hold a unique position of primary responsibility for the safety, care, and welfare of our students. To fulfil this duty, we are committed to embedding safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidelines into all aspects of our operations, ensuring that every student feels valued and respected.

At ISOC, we are dedicated to providing all students with a safe and secure environment. We expect all employees, parents, volunteers, and contracted service providers to maintain a vigilant attitude, actively looking for possible signs of abuse, neglect, and/or exploitation of students. We believe that introducing student safety lessons is a crucial component of harm prevention. These lessons, tailored to each age and stage, serve to introduce and reinforce our school values, Empowering each student to play an active role in their own safety.

We have a Code of Conduct for faculty and staff and a Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy that outlines procedures and reporting practices. These follow and meet the recommendations and requirements of our accrediting agencies, which include CIS, BSO and COBIS. Extended safeguarding training for all the members occurs annually, and background checks are conducted on all employees.

In keeping with the robust commitment to safeguarding protocols, the school continues on a journey to implement best practices in prevention and response to safeguarding concerns within our community, including abuse, neglect, exploitation, and peer-on-peer maltreatment. Safeguarding at ISOC is more than a policy or list of protocols. It is more than an annual training or set of standards. Instead, at ISOC, we believe safeguarding involves building and nurturing a caring, responsive, and protective culture of awareness, knowledge, and empowerment in our student and adult communities.