Past events
Child Safe Organisations Seminar 2025
Child Safe Organisations Seminar 2025: Rights and participation of children and young people in organisations
In celebration of Children’s Week 2025, the Department of Communities, alongside the Supporting Communities Forum’s Child Safe Organisations Working Group, proudly hosted the Child Safe Organisations Seminar 2025 on Friday, October 24.
We invite you to watch the recording of this impactful seminar, featuring inspiring speakers including Professor Laura Lundy of Centre for Children’s Rights and Kate Jones of Hub na nÓg, Ireland; and highlighting important projects engaging children and young people from the Valuing Children Initiative, Perth Airport and Millennium Kids.
View the PowerPoint presentation (PDF, 89.39MB)
Live stream recording:
Past webinars
National Principles for Child Safe Organisations Symposium 2024
During Children’s Week 2024, the Department of Communities, alongside the Supporting Communities Forum Child Safe Organisations Working Group, coordinated a National Principles for Child Safe Organisations Symposium on Monday 21 October. You can access a recording of the Symposium below and hear directly from inspiring keynote speakers from 54 Reasons, Nature Play WA and lived experience and disability advocate, Kay Lane.
View the PowerPoint presentation
Live stream recording:
Child Safe Recruitment and Staff Support
With a focus on National Principle 5, this workshop included a range of guest speakers and covered the topics of recruitment, the role of screening, employee inductions and ongoing support.
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Live stream recording:
WA Child Safe Project delivered by WACOSS and CASWA
The WA Government is supporting the Western Australian Council of Social Service (WACOSS), in partnership with the Council of Aboriginal Services Western Australia (CASWA), to implement the WA Child Safe Project.
The project aims to support small and medium-sized organisations – particularly in regional areas – with practical implementation of the National Principles.
Upcoming training sessions can be found on the WACOSS website
WACOSS recently held a number of foundational webinars exploring the National Principles of Child Safe Organisations, including examples of what it can look like to be a child-safe organisation. You can now access a recording of the Child Safe Foundational Capacity Building Webinar
WACOSS Strengthening Governance and Leadership in Child Safe Organisations Webinar
The WA Child Safe Project held a short webinar in early 2025 to support leaders in child safe organisations to begin to integrate National Principles into existing organisation structures. You can hear from Mark Glasson, CEO Anglicare WA and Kim Brooklyn, CEO Parkerville Children and Youth Care, speak about their experiences when implementing the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
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