Governance and Leadership
The Roots of a Child Safe Organisation
This training is essential for organisations aiming to become or remain a Child Safe Organisation. It equips Governance and Leadership personnel with the tools to understand how their strategic and operational responsibilities establish child safety as a priority, ensure safeguarding best practices are upheld, and foster a safeguarding culture.
Understanding how safeguarding and child protection intersects with Governance and Leadership roles can be challenging. This specialist, engaging, and informative training focuses on applying Child Safe Organisation Principles and Royal Commission recommendations in a way that is proportionate to the organisation’s size, scope, and resources while aligning with the specific responsibilities of Governance and Leadership teams.
Training is available in three flexible formats:
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Facilitated In-Person Training
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Facilitated Exclusive Online Classes via our Virtual Classroom
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Highly Rated eLearning
We offer flexible scheduling for facilitated learning, including early evening and weekend options. Contact us to discuss facilitated delivery, or register for our highly rated Child Safety for Governance and Leadership eLearning today!
Learners will develop the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to make informed decisions about their organisation’s approach to child safeguarding, assess whether current strategies provide effective oversight, and identify areas for continuous improvement.
By the end of this class, learners will be able to:
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State the key elements needed to create a safeguarding culture.
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Recall international and national child safeguarding legislative requirements.
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Name the 10 child safe organisation principles and explain why they are seen as a best practice model.
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Identify Governance or Leadership child safety obligations, roles and responsibilities.
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Recognise the main organisational child safety risks and make an informed decision on your organisation's approach to child safety.
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Show confidence in identifying means for taking forward child safety practices and a safeguarding culture.
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Apply strategies to support child safety continuous improvement.
This training is suitable for those in governance or leadership positions within organisations that support children, young people, and their families. From an awareness perspective, this training can also be benificial for staff in:
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Designated child safety roles, e.g., Safeguarding Officers, Safeguarding Champions
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Those with specific child safety responsibilities, e.g., Human Resource Leads.
How would you describe this class to others?
“Informative, practical and can be applied across all organisations.”
“A great opportunity to learn and review/reflect on your own practice within your organisation around how you keep yourself/staff safer and young people.”
“Recommended for wherever you are on the child-safe continuum.”
“Thorough, specific to our organisation...and the approach used helps increase the importance.”
“Highly informative and accessible. Information is presented in a range of ways to keep it engaging and interesting.”
“Endorsed my experience and broadened some of my understandings."