Child Safety Audits & Reviews
Confirm your child safety benchmark and strengthen practices through expert, independent oversight.
Child Safety Reviews and Audits are critical components of an organisation’s child safety framework and continuous improvement. In line with recommendations from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Royal Commission into Abuse in Care, Governance and Leadership must have effective oversight of their organisation’s child safeguarding and protection practices.
With extensive experience in conducting tailored child safety reviews and audits across various sectors, we help organisations identify and understand their child safety needs, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, adherence to best practices, or preparation for external accreditation. This deepens understanding of the organisation’s child safety maturity and helps protect the children and young people being supported.
Delivered by independent child safety experts, our services provide specialist, objective, and cost-effective assessments to ensure that safeguarding practices are child-centred, holistic, and aligned with best practices and legal standards.
Take the next step in strengthening your safeguarding framework. Contact us today to learn more.
Child Safety Audits
Child safety has far-reaching implications across all organisational functions, particularly in larger or more complex structures with multiple sites, campuses, or teams. Non-specialist audits often overlook child safety or miss key risks and opportunities.
A specialist Child Safety Audit provides a detailed, independent assessment of an organisation’s child safety maturity, evaluating compliance, best practice strengths, gaps, and areas for improvement. As advocated by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Royal Commission, these audits equip governance and leadership with a comprehensive overview of the organisation’s safeguarding performance and child protection capacity across all people, programmes, and environments, both physical and digital.
Another key service within our Child Safety Audit and Review portfolio is the development of self-assessment tools and benchmarking resources for customers. Contact us today to learn how our audits, self-assessment tools, and benchmarking resources can strengthen your safeguarding approach.
Child Safety Reviews
While audits provide a detailed oversight, Child Safety Reviews take a deeper, holistic approach to assessing an organisation’s known and unrecognised child safety needs across all stakeholders, services, and physical and digital environments. These reviews offer a comprehensive framework for embedding improvements and measuring continuous improvement.
Child Safety Reviews guide organisations in interpreting findings and embedding safeguarding and child protection best practices, creating a safeguarding culture that addresses gaps and supports ongoing resilience in safeguarding practices. This process helps the organisation be well-prepared to respond to any emerging child safety concerns.
Our reviews are tailored to each organisation but generally include:
• Desktop Reviews of child safety policies, procedures, and documentation.
• Surveys and Focus Groups with stakeholders (including children and families).
• Assessments of physical and online environments.
• Consultations with key personnel to evaluate child safety structures, culture, and operations.
Customers receive a tailored Child Safety Findings Report detailing compliance and best practice achievements and gaps, along with actionable recommendations. Many organisations also choose to commission additional consultancy support in developing a Child Safety Improvement Plan. Whether as a specific support request or as part of our Embedded Advisor Service. A Child Safety Improvement Plan provides structured guidance for implementing review recommendations and embedding a sustained organisational culture of child safety.
Ensure your organisation is equipped to safeguard children effectively. Contact us today to explore our Child Safety Reviews or discover how our Embedded Advisor service can provide ongoing, tailored support to strengthen your safeguarding culture.