Non-school providers - documentation of child safety practices

About the Standard

This Standard requires non-school providers to apply all the Child Safe Standards and document how they do so. Non-school providers must:

make policies and procedures easy to understand
develop policies and procedures through stakeholder consultation and best practice models
make sure organisational leaders champion and model compliance with policies and procedures.

Non-school providers must have all the required policies and procedures to support child safety.

A non-school provider must:

have policies and procedures that:
- address all the Standards
- are easy to understand
develop policies and procedures using best practice professional development, research or consultation
ensure staff and volunteers understand and implement child safety practices
nominate champions or advocates who promote the Standards and compliance.

A non-school provider complying with this Standard may show that leaders 'champion and model' procedures in a variety of ways.

Particularly if the provider's child safety culture is prominent in:

A non-school provider may also have implemented child safety through:

In complying with Child Safe Standard 11, an organisation must, at a minimum, ensure:
- policies and procedures address all Child Safe Standards
- policies and procedures are documented and easy to understand
- best practice models and stakeholder consultation informs the development of policies and procedures
- leaders champion and model compliance with policies and procedures
- staff and volunteers understand and implement policies and procedures.
- The Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP)(opens in a new window) — provides resources and support for the Child Safe Standards including a 'Guide for creating a Child Safe Organisation' which provides sample policies and useful guidance in the section on current Standard 11.

Updated 25 October 2022