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Early childhood services - suitable staff and volunteers

Guidance on Child Safe Standard 6: People working with children are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice.

Overview

This Standard focuses on making sure people who work with children and young people are suitable and supported to act in a child safe way.

It requires services to:

  • carefully screen and select new staff during recruitment
  • train all staff and volunteers to understand their responsibilities
  • supervise all staff and volunteers to ensure they prioritise children’s safety.

Actions services must take to comply with Standard 6

Standard 6: People working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice.

Early childhood services must comply with all the following elements of this Standard:

  • Recruitment, including advertising, referee checks and staff and volunteer pre-employment screening, emphasise child safety and wellbeing (6.1)
  • Relevant staff and volunteers have current working with children checks or equivalent background checks (6.2).
  • All staff and volunteers receive an appropriate induction and are aware of their responsibilities to children and young people, including record keeping, information sharing and reporting obligations (6.3).
  • Ongoing supervision and people management is focused on child safety and wellbeing (6.4).

How to comply - examples and ideas

Resources

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