Links & resources
Child safety and wellbeing links and resources
The websites and bodies linked below provide information and resources on children’s rights, child safety and wellbeing at the international, national and state/territory levels.
For links to support services and resources on responding to children’s disclosures of abuse, see our Support page.
International
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UNICEF child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
National
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- National Office for Child Safety
- National Principles for Child Safe Organisations advisory group member websites
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Child Family Community Australia
- National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020
- National Quality Framework (Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority)
- NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework
- National Safe Schools Framework
- National Standards for out-of-home care
- Office of the eSafety Commissioner
State/territory
Many organisations engaging with children and young people are regulated through state or territory legislative requirements, including working with children checks.
For information about state and territory requirements, see these resource sheets developed by the Australian Institute of Family Studies:
- Resource sheet on requirements for working with children checks and police checks in each state and territory
- Resource sheet on mandatory reporting requirements in each state and territory
- Resource sheet on reporting suspected child abuse or neglect to state and territory departments responsible for protecting children
The links below provide information about child safe requirements, initiatives and resources in each state and territory.
Australian Capital Territory
- ACT Children and Young People Commissioner
- ACT Working with Vulnerable People Checks
- ACT Reportable Conduct Scheme
New South Wales
- NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian
- NSW Office of the Advocate for Children and Young People
- NSW Reportable Conduct Scheme
Northern Territory
Queensland
- Queensland Family and Child Commission
- Office of the Public Guardian
- Queensland Working with Children Check
South Australia
- South Australia Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People
- South Australia Working with Children Check
Tasmania
- Commissioner for Children and Young People Tasmania
- Tasmania Working with Vulnerable People Registration
Victoria
- Victoria Commission for Children and Young People
- Victoria Reportable Conduct Scheme
- Victoria Working with Children Check
Western Australia
