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ChildSafe Training for Churches and Religious Organisations

ChildSafe Australia has a range of training developed for religious environments. Based on the 10 National Principles for child safe organisations, ChildSafe’s comprehensive training empowers staff and volunteers to create safer environments for children and young people. ChildSafe’s training also references your child safety policy, reporting process, and code of conduct documents.

Training includes:

• Why child safety training?
• Code of conduct
• Safety management to prevent harm
• Recognising abuse
• Responding to harm and abuse
• Scenario-based discussion relevant to each team’s environment

Elvanto Integration with Safety Management Online

Are you and existing user of Elvanto Church Management Software?

ChildSafe has developed a direct integration with Elvanto software.

The integration brings the benefits of adding detailed Child Safety screening, training and incident records without manually duplicating users across both systems.

Contact ChildSafe for details of the integration.

ChildSafe’s training has been developed to help organisations meet the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and state-based Child Safety Standards.

The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations (the National Principles) provide a national approach to cultivating organisational cultures and practices that foster child safety and wellbeing across all sectors in Australia. They give effect to the Royal Commission’s recommended child safe standards while including broader child safety and wellbeing.

Some states have developed State based Child Safety Standards.  ChildSafe’s training is delivered to reflect each states Child safety framework and reporting requirements.

At the core of these standards is education and training for staff and volunteers.

Childsafe Audit Services

Child Safety Auditing assists organisations to determine how their policies, procedures, systems and practices compare with the National Child Safety Standards. Audit’s are conducted and reported exclusively to the client to assist in identifying areas that require further strengthening.

Safety audits are seeking to support your organisation’s overall purpose by identifying opportunities for improvements.

Such safety audits are meant to be independent exercises built on audit industry standards of practice that include.

Impact oriented: audit work is focused on an established risk culture model that predicts outcomes and identifies root causes, providing the necessary foundation for action to drive genuine improvement.

Sustainable: the process must be managed with integrity, be cognisant of risks (to all parties) and ensure conclusions are reliable.

Evidence based: all conclusions must be underpinned by reliable, relevant and useful information including qualitative and quantitative data sources.

Objective: the methodology should employ techniques that minimise bias, both conscious and unconscious.

Insightful: conclusions should seek to highlight and provide evidence on issues that have been difficult to see, understand or act on in the past.

Derived from, Auditing Risk Culture: A practical guide, IIAA, p15, 2021