Specialist program

Safeguarding Children Services

Our Safeguarding Children Services help organisations build strong child-safe cultures and meet their safeguarding obligations. Our experienced consultants work across sectors—including education, sport, disability, faith-based, early childhood, and government—to strengthen systems that prevent abuse and exploitation by employees and volunteers. We offer tailored support, including our evidence-based Certification and Accreditation Programs, and practical tools to engage children, families, and communities in creating safer environments.

Blogs

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Child Safeguarding accreditation – what does success for an organisation look like?

Australian Childhood Foundation (the Foundation) has operated its Safeguarding Children Accreditation program since 2009. The program was endorsed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2015 allowing the Foundation to use its Safeguarding Children...

Explore what success looks like in child safeguarding accreditation, and learn how organisations can build a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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    Training

    On-demand

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for travel & tourism

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for travel and tourism course is a vital step in supporting you and your business with their role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This course was created through the On Us Coalition, a partnership between businesses and Australian Childhood Foundation. The On Us Coalition brings businesses together to help...

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    $75.00
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    On-demand

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for property, retail & real estate

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for property, retail and real estate course is a vital step in supporting you and your business with their role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This course was created through the On Us Coalition, a partnership between businesses and Australian Childhood Foundation. The On Us Coalition brings businesses together...

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    $75.00
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    On-demand

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for corporate professionals

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for corporate professionals course is a vital step in supporting you and your business with their role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This course was created through the On Us Coalition, a partnership between businesses and Australian Childhood Foundation. The On Us Coalition brings businesses together to help children...

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    $75.00
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    On-demand

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for media, advertising & events

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for media, advertising and events course is a vital step in supporting you and your business with their role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This course was created through the On Us Coalition, a partnership between businesses and Australian Childhood Foundation. The On Us Coalition brings businesses together to...

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    $75.00
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    On-demand

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for financial services

    The power of business in child safeguarding: awareness training for financial services course is a vital step in supporting you and your business with their role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This course was created through the On Us Coalition, a partnership between businesses and Australian Childhood Foundation. The On Us Coalition brings businesses...

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    $75.00
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    Resources

    Children’s rights poster

    A free poster covering the rights of all children and young people, written in language they will easily understand. All these rights and more are documented in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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    Tell us what they think poster

    A freely downloadable poster designed by the Safeguarding Children Services of the Australian Childhood Foundation for use in organisations where children and young people are service users.

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    Social media practice guide for personnel

    This practical guide explores the safe and ethical use of social media in organisations working with young people, offering insights, checklists, and tools to support safeguarding in digital spaces.

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    The social impact of safeguarding services

    This evaluation provides an overview of the Foundation’s impact with its partners in keeping children and young people safe. Conducted by the Centre for Social Impact, University of Western Australia, this was a unique study, grounded in qualitative research with organisations who have worked with the Foundation to build capacity and culture to better support the wellbeing and safety of children and young people who engage in their services.

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    Videos

    Secure care in Australia: exploring transparency, practice and purpose

    Recorded webinar – Inside organised exploitation: A conversation with Michael Salter

    Safeguarding children services: online training

    Recorded webinar: Grandparents surviving the care system

    Recorded webinar: What young people say about changing therapeutic residential care

    Recorded webinar: Trauma-informed care in youth detention

    What is a residential care worker?

    What do you think is the role of “reflective practice”?

    What do you enjoy about working with young people?

    What does cultural safety mean to you?

    Supporting Aboriginal children and young people in custodial and residential care settings – Rhett’s story

    How do you support young people in connecting to culture?

    How do you plan for a young person’s transition into and leaving your service?

    How do you help young people feel safe in the residential home?

    Can you share an example of changes you have witnessed in young people after time being supported in residential care?

    A “day in your life” as a residential care worker

    Recorded webinar: Criminalisation of children in care

    Recorded webinar: FASD in out-of-home care

    About us

    Why is reflection important for trauma-informed work?

    Why did you become a therapeutic specialist?

    What would you tell others thinking about becoming a therapeutic specialist?

    What changes have you seen in the young people you work with?

    What are the best parts of being a therapeutic specialist?

    What are the challenges of being a therapeutic specialist?

    How does the exposure to trauma impact on staff?

    What is the role of relationship in therapeutic care?

    What is an average day for a therapeutic specialist?

    What is a therapeutic specialist?

    Welcome to responding to child sexual exploitation

    Safe Connections: How to use the resource kit

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