Child Safe Standards
New Child Safe Standards to strengthen child safety will commence in Victoria on 1 July 2022
The new Standards set out minimum requirements and outline the actions our organisation must take to keep children and young people safe. They provide more clarity for organisations and are more consistent with Standards in the rest of Australia.
What will be different?
Although similar to Victoria’s current Child Safe Standards, key changes include new requirements:
- to involve families and communities in organisations’ efforts to keep children and young people safe
- for a greater focus on safety for Aboriginal children and young people
- to manage the risk of child abuse in online environments
- in relation to governance, systems and processes to keep children and young people safe.
