Leaders of organisations, including board and committee members, chief executives, directors and managers, are responsible for creating and maintaining an organisational culture that ensures the prevention of child abuse is the responsibility of all staff and volunteers.
To be effective in establishing a child safe organisation, leaders will need to implement each of the ten principles and review them regularly.
Whilst governance arrangements will vary depending on the type, nature, size and capacity of an organisation, they should be transparent and all members within the organisation – staff, volunteers, parents, carers and children should feel confident to safely discuss any child safety concerns (Commissioner for Children and Young People, 2019).
- Charter of commitment to children and young people – Australian Human Rights Commission.
- Child safe code of conduct generic guide (Word, (51.52KB) – Department of Communities.
- Child safe code of conduct generic template (Word, (42.84KB) – Department of Communities.
- Child safe code of conduct standards and obligations agreement (Word, (28.48KB) – Department of Communities.
- Child safe code of conduct – Australian Human Rights Commission.
- Applying a safeguarding code of conduct video – Australian Childhood Foundation.
- Establishing a safeguarding perimeter video – Australian Childhood Foundation.
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