Child Safe Policy – templates and guidelines

Use these resources to help you develop, implement and maintain your child safe policy.

Start with Child Safe Policy guidance

Use this guide to help you meet South Australian laws and the National Principles, and to structure your policy clearly.

A guide to what to include in a Child Safe Policy

Use policy templates

Policy templates are available for the following types of organisations:

• sole trader/partnership with no workers (DOCX 76.8 KB)
• sole trader/partnership with workers or single organisation (DOCX 83.3 KB)

Build reporting and response procedures

These resources support the parts of your policy and include useful templates:

• Child Safe – Code of Conduct (DOCX 5.9 MB)
• Child Safe – Recruitment, Induction and Support (DOCX 5.6 MB)
• Child Safe – Reporting Obligations (DOCX 8.1 MB)
• Child Safe – Risk Management (DOCX 4.8 MB)

Additional resources for child safe environments

Once you have developed your Child Safe Policy, use these resources to support implementation, staff training, mandatory reporting and continuous improvement of child safe practices.

Resources to support child safe environments