CHILD SAFETY
Our commitment to safety and wellbeing of all children.
Anglicare is committed to creating a safe organisation for the children and young people we engage with.
When it comes to keeping our children safe, we all have a role – as individuals and families, but also, as the community organisations we are part of. Creating safer organisations means listening to and including children and young people so they feel included, valued and their voices are heard.
We are committed to continually improve and embed policies and practices that create safe and healing environments for all children and young people we work with.
Our Child Safety Statement & Commitments
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The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations set out a nationally consistent approach to promoting a culture of child safety and wellbeing within organisations. The principles give effect to the child safe standards that were recommended by the Royal Commission and bring attention to general child safety and wellbeing issues.
The National Principles were agreed upon by all Australian governments in February 2019.
The National Principles collectively show that a child safe organisation is one that creates a culture, adopts strategies and takes action to promote child wellbeing and prevent harm to children and young people. A child safe organisation consciously and systematically: creates an environment where children’s safety and wellbeing is the centre of thought, values and actions places emphasis on genuine engagement with, and valuing of children creates conditions that reduce the likelihood of harm to children and young people creates conditions that increase the likelihood of identifying any harm responds to any concerns, disclosures, allegations or suspicions. The adoption and application of national child safe principles in any institution or organisation across Australia, in which children are involved, is a significant milestone in promoting child safety and wellbeing.