The department has partnered with Early Childhood Australia to expand its Children’s Safety and Safeguarding research-informed resources for early childhood professionals.
Free webinars, live online learning sessions, in-person events and fact sheets will be rolled out to support early childhood educators, teachers and service leaders. These resources will provide the latest evidence and best practice on child safety and safeguarding.
The resources complement PROTECT and national mandatory training. They provide practical tools and a chance to discuss child safety issues.
About the training
The live webinars will run during May and June, and cover topics including:
- child-safe recruitment and onboarding (Tuesday 12 May)
- staffing and rostering for consistent supervision (Wednesday 20 May)
- learning environment safety audits (Tuesday 26 May)
- grooming and sexual abuse prevention (Tuesday 2 June)
- trauma-informed safeguarding (Tuesday 9 June)
- responding to concerns raised by educators and families (Wednesday 17 June).
Victorian educators and leaders who sign up for webinars will then be invited to enrol for the live online learning and in-person events to further unpack these topics. These sessions will be held from mid-June to August.
Find out more
For more information about the program and to register for a webinar, refer to the Early Childhood Australia webpage: Strengthening Child Safeguarding in Early Childhood.
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