Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group
The Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group gives advice and shares information about what governments and organisations can do to keep children and young people safe and well.
Children and young people spend a lot of time engaging with organisations and communities outside of school and home through their hobbies, sport clubs, faith groups, and other activities. It is important that these organisations and communities operate in ways that are positive for children’s safety and wellbeing. Organisations and communities that work with children and young people also know a lot about the needs and challenges of keeping an organisation child safe, and this group provides the opportunity to share good practices.
The National Office established the Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group to help us understand, through collaborative discussions and feedback, how we can better develop and deliver national initiatives that help keep children safe. These initiatives include rolling out the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations across organisations and communities that work with children and young people, and informing the development and now implementation of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group also works together to promote and share information about how communities and organisations can improve child safety in practice.
Members of the group are representatives of national peak bodies and large national organisations that work with children and young people.