About the Standard
This Standard creates a child safe culture at all organisational levels by emphasising:
- information sharing
- recordkeeping
- governance arrangements
- management of risks to children.
How to comply
An RTO must be able to provide evidence of:
- the RTO's public commitment to child safety
- governance arrangements that implement child safety policies and procedures and reporting requirements
- strategies to manage risks to the safety and welfare of children
- a Child Safety Code of Conduct that specifies acceptable and unacceptable behavioural standards
- a Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
- staff and volunteers' professional development and, or induction that includes:
- child safety information sharing
- recordkeeping requirements.
Examples of compliance
An RTO complying with this Standard may have:
- website publication of the RTO’s Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy and Child Safety Code of Conduct
- a Child Safety Code of Conduct that specifies acceptable and unacceptable behavioural standards and applies to staff, volunteers and students
- documented governance frameworks to implement child safe policies, procedures and reporting requirements
- a risk register to identify, prevent and reduce risks to child safety
- recruitment and induction resources and processes that cover the Child Safe Standards
- professional development for staff and volunteers that covers information sharing and recordkeeping obligations.
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In complying with Child Safe Standard 2, an organisation must, at a minimum, ensure:
- the organisation makes a public commitment to child safety
- a child safe culture is championed and modelled at all levels of the organisation from the top down and bottom up
- governance arrangements facilitate implementation of the Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy at all levels
- a Code of Conduct provides guidelines for staff and volunteers on expected behavioural standards and responsibilities
- risk management strategies focus on preventing, identifying and mitigating risks to children and young people
- staff and volunteers understand their obligations on information sharing and record keeping.
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- The Commission for Children and Young People — provides tools to guide and support the implementation of this Standard including ‘Creating a Child Safety and ’ and ‘Steps to develop or update your Code ’.
- The New South Wales Office of the Children's Guardian's Codes of Conduct: a guide to developing child safe Codes of provides extensive advice on developing a Child Safety Code of Conduct.
- The Commission for Children and Young People — provides tools to guide and support the implementation of this Standard including ‘Creating a Child Safety and ’ and ‘Steps to develop or update your Code ’.
Reviewed 24 June 2022