Practical advice for parents about what to look for in a child safe organisation.

The idea of child safety: beyond compliance is something that I have written about previously. The alarming accounts of harm to children...

Organisations should regularly discuss risk and staff at all levels should be encouraged to speak up and identify risks

Explore the differences between mandatory reporting and child safe practices.

News Report: Police paedophile groomed, abused 50 boys over 30 years. Reading this article today I felt I needed to write down my thoughts

In this blog we explore how trauma can be a barrier to inclusion and discuss some strategies staff can use

Today we are going to explore some common barriers to engaging in Child Protection training.

In the last post we explored why trauma informed child protection training is important. Today we are going to consider who should receive t

Child protection related training can be a hard topic for participants to engage with. In this blog series we are going to examine some...

There has been a lot of attention on schools in recent weeks. The Board of Enquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris...

During my travels I was struck by how Child Safety is on the radar everywhere. Read on for further reflections

Over the past 2 blog posts we have been looking at The Australian Child Maltreatment Study findings around the most common types/class of...

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...

Many misconceptions exist as to who harms children. This blog series examines the most recent Australian research

Today we will start to think about what trauma looks like in our classrooms

When we think about barriers to inclusion we often think about disability, developmental delays, medical or mental health issues but we...

This is a question that comes up regularly and it is important that those working with children are clear about the differences between...

In complying with Victorian Child Safe Standard 2 an organisation must, at a minimum, ensure that they make a public commitment to child...

The theme for this years National Child Protection Week is "Where we start matters". There's a few different ways we can consider this...

The National Regulations require Early childhood professionals to be aware of the existence and application of current child protection...