Compliance statements

In South Australia, organisations (including sole traders) providing services to children and young people must provide child-safe environments and:

• have a child-safe environments policy in place and at a minimum, review that policy once every 5 years
• meet Working with Children Check obligations, and
• lodge a child-safe environments compliance statement with the Department of Human Services and lodge a new statement each time the policy is reviewed and updated.

Lodging a compliance statement is free.

Who must lodge a compliance statement

All organisations providing services to children and young people must lodge a compliance statement. This includes (but is not limited to):

• health services including allied health practitioners
• accommodation or residential services for children (including school camp providers)
• services or activities provided by religious organisations
• childcare or child-minding services
• child protection services
• coaching or tuition services for children
• disability services for children
• commercial services provided directly to children (including recreational, entertainment, photographers etc)
• clubs and associations with a significant membership of children who provide sporting, recreational, cultural or artistic services or activities
• education services
• transport services for children
• any other service or activity declared by section 7 of the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016.

This includes state authorities, non-government organisations, sole traders and people working in partnerships.

Section 6 of the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 tells you which organisations are included.

Lodging your compliance

We are changing the way CSEC Statements are lodged online. Online lodgement is temporarily closed and will be available again by 30 June 2025.

If you need to lodge a Statement before 30 June 2025 to provide evidence of a current statement to an employing agency or regulatory body —  phone the Child Safe team on 1800 371 113.

Organisations lodging a statement for the first time or updating their statement after a policy review can do so after 30 June 2025.

No penalties will be issued during this period.