What is the purpose of Policy 701?

• To protect pupils in the public education system from non-professional conduct by adults to which they may be exposed by virtue of being pupils, including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and discrimination;
  
  
• To ensure that adults in the public education system understand the magnitude of the responsibility conferred upon them when parents and communities entrust their children to the public education system; and
  
  
• To eliminate non-professional conduct through the defining of acceptable standards of behaviour, prevention and effective intervention.