Resources and training

• Child Safe Organisations – information, tools and resources to support implementation of the National Principles
• Australian Human Rights Commission have information on the National principles and creating child safe organisations.
• TAS Interim Guide to the Child Safe Standards and Universal Principle
• VIC Guide for Creating a Child Safe Organisation (long)
• VIC Guide to the Child Safe Standards (short)
• NSW Guide to the Child Safe Standards

• Keeping Our Kids Safe – Cultural Safety and the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations guide has been produced by Secretariat National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) offering practical advice on cultural safety in relation to the 10 principles. 
• The Victorian Commission for Children and Young People have developed material to assist organisations to learn more about cultural safety and how to create culturally safe environments and has more information that may assist you.

• Australian Human Rights Commission Learning Hub contains training resources to increase your understanding of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and help you consider how organisations can approach implementation.
• National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) offers free, online professional development workshops to help organisations become child safe and implement the national principles. 

• Introductory Self-Assessment tool for organisations from the National Office of Child Safety helps organisations learn about the National Principles and identify priority areas for improvement. There are examples of what each principle might look like when implemented in practice and prompts organisations to commit to taking concrete actions to improve their child safe practices.
• VIC Child Safe Standards assessment tool template (word) is another example of a self-assessment tool to guide organisations through the process of determining areas for improvement. 

Child safety and wellbeing is embedded in organisational leadership, governance and culture.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• The Australian Human Rights Commission has templates available to assist organisations to develop a Charter of Commitment, a Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy and a Code of Conduct.
• NSW has produced a set of templates and samples
• Victoria has an extensive library of resources.

Children are informed about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• Protection through participation: Involving children in child safe organisations is a practitioner resource providing practical guidance for involving children in child safe organisations.  
• QFCC Model of Participation outlines how to meaningfully include young people in decision making.
• Victoria’s Empowerment and participation guide is a useful tool for organisations working with children and young people.

Families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.

• Child Safe Organisations: Guide for parents and carers will help parents and carers think about how organisations are providing safety and wellbeing arrangements for children.
• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• For tips on involving families in your service provision, refer to this  Victorian resource – How to generate family involvement in service management. 

Equity is upheld and diverse needs respected in policy and practice.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• National Principles for Child Safe Organisations Consultation Report – Children and Young People with Disability outlines key findings and recommendations to inform the development of resources that will support organisations to better keep children and young people with disability safe. 
• Australian Institute of Family Studies - Understanding safeguarding practices for children with disability when engaging with organisations is a practitioner resource explores how an understanding of abuse and neglect relating to children with disability can assist in establishing child-safe organisations.
• Rainbow Health Australia – Rainbow Tick assessment tool LGBTQI+ is a resource to assess your organisation’s safety and consideration of LGBTQI+ young people. 

People working with children are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing in practice.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• The Victorian Commission for Children and Young people has produced guides on choosing, developing and supervising staff and volunteers and sample learning and training action plans.
• NSW has produced a set of templates and samples to help achieve this standard.

Processes to respond to complaints of child abuse are child focused.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• The National Office of Child Safety has produced a complaints handling guide and resources to support organisations to build their capacity in creating child safe cultures and handling complaints involving children. 

Staff and volunteers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children safe through ongoing education and training.

• NAPCAN offer training about protective behaviours: Protective Behaviours Training - NAPCAN
• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• CFCA Webinar - Responding to disclosures of abuse and neglect provides an overview of recent research on how to support and respond to children's disclosures of abuse and neglect.
• Australian Institute of Family Studies - Practice Guide provides guidance on responding to children and young people's disclosures of abuse. 
• Emerging Minds has resources to assist people to respond to disclosures of sexual abuse.
• The Child development and trauma guide from Western Australia is a helpful resource to be trauma-informed when working with children. 

Physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing and minimise the opportunity for children to be harmed.

• eSafety Commissioner has a range of resources to help improve online safety for children and young people.   
  Child Safe Organisations – online safety checklist helps identify considerations for organisations about how they engage with children online. 
• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• Australian Institute of Family Studies has produced this Online safety guide. 
• Who knows what about me? from the Children’s Commissioner for England is a helpful guide for all the things to think about all the ways we are connected to the internet. 

Implementation of the Child Safe Standards is regularly reviewed and improved.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• ACECQA offer this Information sheet: Practical ideas to support continuous quality improvement 

Policies and procedures document how the organisation is safe for children.

• The Victorian Children’s Commission provides an overview of the types of actions and documents an organisation would have in place to achieve this standard.
• How to develop and update policies successfully (without the stress) from Child Australia provides guidance that can help you achieve this standard. 

There are other jurisdictions that have implemented child safe standards and reportable conduct schemes and have produced resources to support organisations. 

Find links below, but please note that there are some differences in how cultural safety is addressed, how reportable conduct schemes operate and the obligations placed on organisations regarding how they implement the standards.

• Western Australia Department of Communities
• Commissioner for Children and Young People (WA)
• Commission for Children and Young People (VIC)
• Office of the Children’s Guardian (NSW)
• Commissioner for Children and Young People Tasmania
• Office of the Independent Regulator (TAS)

• Children’s Rights Queensland has a range of resources for educators, parents, carers and children to learn more about children’s rights.
• University of Tasmania Introduction to Children’s Rights and Safety is an online short course designed to build awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the role you play in ensuring children’s voices are heard and taken seriously.
• Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) and their Community Door provide human rights information and training for Queensland based social services organisations.

Children’s development and wellbeing

• ARACY provides What is wellbeing? – a short video to help people understand what the term wellbeing means.
• Emerging Minds Learning portal provides free online courses and resources to help support people working with children and families. 
• Emerging Minds Pathways provides learning pathways that could be useful for organisations needing to build staff knowledge and understanding and elevate child safe practices. The following pathways could be of particular interest:
  • Building blocks for children’s social and emotional wellbeing
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and emotional wellbeing
  • Engaging with Children
  • Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities
  • Interpersonal Trauma
  • Disability