A Guide for Creating a Child Safe Organisation

A Guide for Creating a Child Safe Organisation
Author: Commission for Children and Young People
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-04-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648716372

This guide aims to support organisations implement child safe practices to create a culture where the safety of children is promoted, child abuse is prevented, and allegations of child abuse will be taken seriously and acted on. It aims to help organisations to comply with the Child SafeStandards (the Standards) under the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 (Vic).

Child Safety Toolkit

Child Safety Toolkit
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2018
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781876976583

This resource aims to help schools and other services working with children create a child safe organisation and ensure their organisation is acting appropriately. Creating a child-safe culture is not just having a set of policies and procedures in place, but about creating a culture where all staff, volunteers, and Board members take responsibility for promoting and ensuring child safety and the participation and empowerment of children. Sections address creating the right culture, recruitment, mandatory and voluntary reporting, and responding to a report, and sample policies and codes of conduct are included. This resource updates the 2016 'Child protection toolkit' in light of new legislation and the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Author: Ton Liefaard
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004295054

In 2014 the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in the time since then it has entered a new century, reshaping laws, policies, institutions and practices across the globe, along with fundamental conceptions of who children are, their rights and entitlements, and society’s duties and obligations to them. Yet despite its rapid entry into force worldwide, there are concerns that the Convention remains a high-level paper treaty without the traction on the ground needed to address ever-continuing violations of children’s rights. This book, based on papers from the conference ‘25 Years CRC’ held by the Department of Child Law at Leiden University, draws together a rich collection of research and insight by academics, practitioners, NGOs and other specialists to reflect on the lessons of the past 25 years, take stock of how international rights find their way into children’s lives at the local level, and explore the frontiers of children’s rights for the 25 years ahead.