Creating child safe organisations
⚠️ Content note: The videos on this page refer to violence, abuse, neglect, and child sexual abuse.
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About these resources
Everyone has a right to safety when engaging with organisations.
The educational videos on this page can help people understand how to make their organisation safe for children and young people with disability. They include information for staff and volunteers about creating inclusive and safe environments, and for children and young people with disability about their rights.
CYDA developed these resources with the Australian Government to help implement the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. They were co-designed with children and young people with disability and organisations that work with children and young people.
What safety in an organisation means
This video presents aspects of safety from the lived experience of children and young people with disability. It covers access and inclusion, communication needs and preferences, visible and invisible disability, online safety, cultural safety, identity, rights, respect, consent, and child abuse, including child sexual abuse.
The video aims to help organisations, staff and volunteers understand safety from the perspective of children and young people with disability by increasing their knowledge of disability, building confidence, and encouraging further learning.
How staff and volunteers create a safe space
This video talks about research that found children and young people with disability are 3 to 4 times more likely than their non-disabled peers to experience physical violence, emotional abuse, neglect and sexual violence from staff, volunteers and other children and young people when engaging with organisations.
It also provides practical tips and strategies to help staff and volunteers create safe and supportive environments for children and young people with disability. This includes preventing, recognising and reporting child abuse, including child sexual abuse.
Your right to safety in organisations
This video has information for children, young people, and caregivers about their right to safety in an organisation. It equips them with the tools and knowledge to self-advocate.
Topics include accessibility, communication needs and preferences, inclusion, child safe policies and practices, planning for an emergency, cultural safety, and child abuse, including child sexual abuse.