Child Safe Organisations
This one-day face-to-face training program unpacks the actions that organisations need to take to ensure they are safe for children and meet their obligations under state and federal Government Child Safe Standards and Principles.
Key topics:
- Overview of the current child safety context in Australia
- Understanding child abuse (online harm, grooming behaviour and harmful sexual behaviour)
- Australian child safeguarding frameworks and legislation
- Child safeguarding reporting obligations
- Breaking down the National Principles of Child Safe Organisations
In this face-to-face training session you will learn how to:
- Update knowledge of child safety related data and context.
- Enhance knowledge of the forms of child abuse with a focus on grooming and harmful sexual behaviour and how to respond to concerns and disclosures.
- Learn about legislation, standards and frameworks that apply to child safe organisations and apply your learning to reporting concerns of child abuse.
- Understand key engagement principles to improve participation of children, young people and families and ensure there are child safe complaints pathways
- Gain a better understanding of equity, diversity and cultural safety and how it impacts child safety.
- Build knowledge of key child safe organisational practices incl: child safe policy and Code of Conduct, child safe recruitment/screening and risk management.
- Develop a deeper understanding of key cultural change elements, the importance of leadership and governance and the challenges to maintaining child safe organisations.
Who is this training right for?
The course is suitable for anyone in a leadership or management position in an organisation that engages with children, or has responsibility for keeping children safe via a child safeguarding portfolio.
Cost
The cost of this face-to-face training program is $599.50 including GST.
Cancellation policy
- You are eligible for a full refund if cancellation occurs 14 days prior to training.
- 30% of the training costs will be charged if cancellation occurs between 7-14 days prior to training.
- No refund will be provided for cancellations within 7 days prior to training.