Child safe environments

The Child Safe Environments program supports organisations providing services to children and young people to build and maintain environments that are both child safe and child-friendly. These are environments where children and young people:

• are protected
• feel respected, valued and encouraged to reach their full potential
• are heard.

We do this by supporting:

• organisations to develop child safe policies and procedures aligned with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
• organisations to lodge their child safe environments compliance statement
• facilitators of the Safe Environments – Through Their Eyes training.

As a prescribed organisation, the department has a Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy, which applies to all children, young people and families we work with.

More information

External websites

• Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017
• Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016
• Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Regulations 2019
• Safeguarding Children and Young People Portal - Australian Catholic University
• Child safeguarding podcasts - Bradley Poynting