News

Media

Recent media releases and opinion pieces by the National Children’s Commissioner relating to child safety and wellbeing and child safe organisations:

• Child Safe Organisations: eLearning modules released (21 August 2019)
• Commissioner welcomes COAG endorsement of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations (19 February 2019)
• Commissioner welcomes Government response to Royal Commission (13 June 2018)
• We must act on lessons of Royal Commission (15 December 2017)
• Children's commissioners call for action to protect the rights of children in custody (29 November 2017)
• Report must be catalyst for change (17 November 2017)
• We need to do more to protect our kids online (25 May 2017)

Speeches

Recent speeches by the National Children’s Commissioner relating to child safety and wellbeing and child safe organisations:

• Child Safety Presentation to the Australian Government Department of Education (12 July 2019)
• Speech to the NSW & ACT Professional Standards Network (29 August 2018)
• Address to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention Network Conference (13 November 2017)
• Children’s rights to safety and to a holistic education (5 October 2017)
• Creating safety: Building respect, resilience and relationships using children’s rights (4 August 2017)

e-newsletters

Updates on the Child Safe Organisations project are distributed by the National Children’s Commissioner in an e-newsletter. Read past e-newsletters here:

• December 2019
• August 2019
• July 2019
• June 2019
• February 2019
• May & June 2018
• April 2018
• March 2018
• February 2018
• January 2018
• December 2017

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