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Child Safe Resource Kit

Is your Family Day Care service ‘Child Safe’? All of us involved in the FDC sector who spend our days ensuring children are educated and cared for in the best way possible, would naturally like to believe that our organisations are child safe. But are they? Is there more that can be done to ensure that your organisation is doing its utmost to safeguard children from harm. Harm in this context is:

  • physical
  • sexual
  • emotional or psychological
  • harm caused by racial, cultural, religious discrimination or lack of cultural sensitivity that might occur in a FDC setting.

 

The best way for a FDC service to ensure it is child safe is by implementing policies and practices to reduce risks and by educating educators and staff about appropriate and acceptable behaviour.

A Child Safe organisation is defined by the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian as one that:

  • develops child safe policies
  • has a child safe code of conduct
  • ensures effective staff recruitment and training
  • understands privacy considerations
  • has a plan for managing risk
  • encourages children and young people to participate
  • effectively deals with concerns or complaints about behaviours towards a child
  • attends child safe organisations training.

 

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This resource has been provided by the Department of Education as part of the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector Development Program.

Resources to help your FDC service become more Child Safe

Child Safe self-assessment tool

Use this online tool to assess your FDC service’s current capacity to meet child safety and regulatory requirements. The tool enables FDC services to self-assess and print a report, with suggestions to upgrade their policies and procedures.

START YOUR CHILD SAFE self-assessment

Child Safe Policy

A draft Child Safe policy for your FDC service which you can download, adapt and adopt.
CHILD SAFE POLICY

Child Safe Code of Conduct

A draft Child Safe Code of Conduct for your FDC service which you can download, adapt and adopt.
CHILD SAFE CODE OF CONDUCT

Child Safe PD session

Use this Power Point presentation and accompanying facilitator notes to deliver a Professional Development session for your educators about your service’s commitment to creating a child safe organisation.

CHILD SAFE PD SESSION

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