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How to embed child safety in organisational culture
It’s Not Just Policies – It’s People Who Keep Children Safe
Every day, headlines remind us that our systems and services—whether early learning, residential care, or online platforms—are still failing the children they are meant to protect. From alarming revelations about childcare breaches and state care exploitation to legal and technological gaps demanding urgent reform, the time for complacency has passed.
In this powerful and thought-provoking session, we’ll challenge the assumption that safety comes from paperwork. Australia already has an abundance of frameworks, child safe standards, reporting schemes, and national principles, but checklists and policies don’t protect children. People do.
True child safety lives in culture, not compliance. We’ll explore how real protection comes from embedding child safety into the DNA of your organisation — where inappropriate behaviour is never tolerated, never normalised, and never goes undetected.
Join us to uncover how to elevate your organisation’s approach to child safety with this hands-on seminar, designed to equip and empower.
Your event experience
- Real-world learning with practical examples and case studies
- Walk away with a toolkit of practical resources, frameworks, and tools that you will be able to implement immediately in your role and organisation
- Build awareness of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and State/Territory Principles and Child Safe Standards
- Develop a multi-year safeguarding framework
- Embed a child-safe culture that values the well-being of children with the National Principles
Your Facilitator:
Brad Poynting
Principal Consultant, Poynting Consulting & Advisory
Brad is a tenacious advocate for the well-being of children and young people. From working in front-line child protection in Queensland to developing child safeguarding frameworks for some of the largest providers of Early Education in Australia, safeguarding strategies for faith-based organisations and child safeguarding and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse roles for international humanitarian aid agencies. Brad is on a mission to prevent children and young people from experiencing abuse and neglect.
Who will attend
This seminar is designed for advocates of children’s rights and child safeguarding within organisations, middle or senior managers who oversee children’s safeguarding, or middle or senior managers who oversee children’s programs and services from the following sectors/services:
- Early Learning
- Schools and Education
- Domestic and Family Violence
- Refuge Services
- Out of Home Care
- Homelessness Services
- Child Safety & Protection
- Youth, Sports, Recreation Groups, and Community Services
- Federal and State Government