Helen Haydock
Is mandatory reporting the same as child safe practices(The National Principles/Child Safe Standards)?
Explore the differences between mandatory reporting and child safe practices.
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Helen Haydock
- Jul 4
- 3 min
News Report: "Police paedophile groomed, abused 50 boys over 30 years." What can child safe organisations learn from this?
News Report: Police paedophile groomed, abused 50 boys over 30 years. Reading this article today I felt I needed to write down my thoughts
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Helen Haydock
- Jun 20
- 3 min
Supporting the Inclusion of Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
In this blog we explore how trauma can be a barrier to inclusion and discuss some strategies staff can use
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Helen Haydock
- Apr 30
- 3 min
Why Should Organisations Invest in Child Protection Training? (Part 3)
Today we are going to explore some common barriers to engaging in Child Protection training.
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Helen Haydock
- Apr 24
- 2 min
Why Should Organisations Invest in Child Protection Training? (Part 2)
In the last post we explored why trauma informed child protection training is important. Today we are going to consider who should receive t
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Helen Haydock
- Apr 22
- 2 min
Why Should Organisations Invest in Child Protection Training? (Part 1)
Child protection related training can be a hard topic for participants to engage with. In this blog series we are going to examine some...
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Helen Haydock
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Ensuring Child Safety in Schools: A Parent's Guide
There has been a lot of attention on schools in recent weeks. The Board of Enquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris...
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Helen Haydock
- Feb 12
- 2 min
Reflections on Child Safety Beyond Compliance.
During my travels I was struck by how Child Safety is on the radar everywhere. Read on for further reflections
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Helen Haydock
- Jan 10
- 3 min
Who Harms Children? And Why is This Important? (Part 3/3)
Over the past 2 blog posts we have been looking at The Australian Child Maltreatment Study findings around the most common types/class of...
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Helen Haydock
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Who Harms Children? And why is this question so important? (Part 2/3)
In the first of this 3 part blog series we asked you to think about what class of perpetrator of sexual abuse was most commonly...
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Helen Haydock
- Jan 10
- 1 min
Who Harms Children? And why is this question so important? (Part 1/3)
Many misconceptions exist as to who harms children. This blog series examines the most recent Australian research
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Helen Haydock
- Dec 5, 2023
- 2 min
Trauma in the Classroom
Today we will start to think about what trauma looks like in our classrooms
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Helen Haydock
- Nov 28, 2023
- 2 min
Trauma as a Barrier to Inclusion
When we think about barriers to inclusion we often think about disability, developmental delays, medical or mental health issues but we...
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Helen Haydock
- Nov 4, 2023
- 2 min
What is the difference between Mandatory Reporting and Child Safe Standards?
This is a question that comes up regularly and it is important that those working with children are clear about the differences between...
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Helen Haydock
- Sep 19, 2023
- 2 min
What is a Statement of Commitment to Child Safety and Why is it Important?
In complying with Victorian Child Safe Standard 2 an organisation must, at a minimum, ensure that they make a public commitment to child...
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Helen Haydock
- Sep 6, 2023
- 1 min
National Child Protection Week 2023
The theme for this years National Child Protection Week is "Where we start matters". There's a few different ways we can consider this...
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Helen Haydock
- Aug 23, 2023
- 1 min
Child Protection Training for Early Education: Beyond Compliance
The National Regulations require Early childhood professionals to be aware of the existence and application of current child protection...
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Helen Haydock
- Aug 16, 2023
- 3 min
Ensuring child safety: what to look for in an organisation
Following recent media focus on child safety many parents and guardians may be questioning what they should be looking for when selecting...
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Helen Haydock
- Aug 8, 2023
- 1 min
Frequently Asked Questions About our Child Safe Training
You may be considering organising training for your team. This FAQ document will answer some common questions about our training. If you...
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Helen Haydock
- Aug 2, 2023
- 3 min
Former childcare educator charged with 1623 child abuse offences.
Reading the news about the childcare educator charged with over 1500 child sexual offences over the past 24 hours has been harrowing....
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