Child safe organisations
Children and young people are part of many communities and organisations. Making these places child safe is essential to preventing harm.
To promote child safety and prevent and respond to child sexual abuse, we work with governments and non-government organisations to strengthen organisational cultures and leadership, improve transparency and accountability and embed child safe practices.
More information about how we are doing this is below.
We work with organisations and state and territory governments to develop resources and practical tools that help organisations, children , young people, parents and carers learn about the National Principles and how they should be used.
The Commonwealth Child Safe Framework sets minimum standards for creating and maintaining child safe culture and practices in Australian Government entities.
Working with Children Check schemes form part of a broader suite of practices that help to protect children from abuse. The Australian Government and state and territory governments are committed to continually improving these schemes to make organisations safer for children.