Lodging your statement

All organisations offering services to children or young people must lodge a child safe environments compliance statement.

All compliance statements (including your policies) are reviewed by the Child Safe Environments Team. Feedback on policies may be provided to assist you to meet minimum legislative requirements.

Organisations have a maximum of 6 months from the original lodgement date to finalise their lodgement. This gives organisations time to develop policies or respond to feedback on policies reviewed by the CSE Team.

Lodge your statement online

Compliance statements must be lodged online via the Child Safe Environment Compliance (CSEC) system. Your child safe policy/ies must be uploaded as part of your compliance statement.

The CSEC system requires you to register before lodging a compliance statement. Once set up, you can access lodged compliance statements and supporting documentation at any time.

To register and lodge your statement, click here

There are 3 types of lodgement you can choose from:

• Sole trader (also includes partnerships)
  • A sole trader is a person who is the only owner who controls and manages a business
  • A partnership is an arrangement between two or more parties to manage a business
• Single organisation
• A single entity formed as a company or corporation
• Representative body
• An organisation that represents smaller-sized enterprises or, for sporting clubs, a representative body is the overarching peak organisation that represents affiliated sporting member clubs.
• Where a representative body lodges a statement on behalf of its member organisations, it must satisfy itself that the organisations it represents have adopted the policies of the representative body’.

Help to lodge online

Please refer to the CSEC system user manual as it provides step-by-step instructions on how to lodge a compliance statement using the online lodgement system and other services available on the system.