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Category: Child Safety
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study
How to Safeguard Children from Harm: Part 2 The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) followed 8,503 Australians across five years..
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study Part 1
Findings, Impacts and the Importance of Safeguarding: Part 1 Exposure to abuse and neglect can impact a child’s sense of..
Online Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People
The current world is a digital one and a significant amount of interaction occurs online through social media platforms, forums,..
Safeguarding organisations from child abuse
On average it takes a survivor of institutional child sexual abuse 23.9 years to disclose the abuse. Some never report..
The Importance of Child Safety When Engaging Children in Paid Employment – Child Safe Standards
The Child Safe Standards commenced in Victoria in January 2016. On 1 July 2022 eleven new Child Safe Standards came..
Child Safety in Western Australia: The Reportable Conduct Scheme
Background On 15 December 2017, the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal..
Children with Disability: Embedding the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
Recommendations Arising out of the Children and Young People with Disability Australia Consultation Report In 2022, the National Office for..
Duty of Care: Safeguarding Against Harm
A Coronial Inquest into the Death of Cristiaan Adriaan Roodt On 17 March 2023, the Coroners Court of the Australian..
Safeguarding Investigations: The Interplay Between Child Safety Systems
The Client Incident Management System and the Reportable Conduct Scheme Prior to the Reportable Conduct Scheme (the RCS) organisations managed..