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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">LGS Safeguarding Policy Against Harassment and Bullying</h2>
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<li>LGS is fully committed to establishing and maintaining a working and learning environment that is free from harassment and bullying of any kind and where all persons are treated with courtesy, dignity and respect.</li>
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<li>Harassment and bullying are unlawful and will not be tolerated by LGS under any circumstances. Any member of the LGS community found to be engaging in such behaviour will be subject to appropriate penalties.</li>
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<figure class="wp-block-table"><table class="has-fixed-layout"><tbody><tr><td>Harassment means written, verbal, sexual, virtual or physical conduct that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment and adversely affects a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from the school’s educational programs or activities, their employment, or causes an overall impairment of his/her morale.</td><td>Bullying is an unwarranted expression of aggression via verbal, electronic, written or physical communication, towards an individual and/or group, by an individual and/or group. Bullying puts the persons at a reasonable risk of harm and causes emotional distress and may also lead to the person’s ability to benefit from his/her education/employment due to the creation of a hostile environment</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>
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<li>LGS recognises that anyone can be a victim of harassment and bullying, regardless of their sex and of the sex of the harasser/bully.</li>
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<li>LGS absolutely prohibits romantic or sexual relationships between members of the school<br>community in a supervisory position with a student and strongly discourages such relationships between employees.</li>
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