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RTOs - child safety and wellbeing

Building a strong organisational child safe culture.

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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