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AlburyCity - A Child Safe Organisation

AlburyCity is working towards being a child safe organisation because we are committed to and believe in supporting, empowering and protecting children and young people.

We are working to embed child safety in everything we do because every child has a right to feel safe; children are our legacy and our future, and we play an important role in helping them to reach their full potential in environments free from harm.

In line with the NSW Child Safe Standards we’re progressing work that enables us to become a child safe organisation, an organisation that “creates a culture, adopts strategies and takes action to promote child wellbeing and prevent harm to children and young people”.

We are enhancing our commitment to keeping children and young people safe by publicly stating that AlburyCity:

  • upholds the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • will actively seek to listen to and empower children and young people
  • has a ZERO tolerance to child abuse, harm and neglect and actively works to eliminate them
  • is improving systems and processes to protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children
  • takes child safety concerns very seriously and responds to them professionally, with care and empathy
  • will promote safe environments for all children and embraces diversity and leverages inclusion

We will also be improving ways in which our community and our children can raise and/or report concerns, how we share and seek information about child safety and how we better embed child safety in our organisational leadership, governance and culture.

AlburyCity plays a critical role in keeping our children safe but protecting children is everyone’s responsibility.

Why we have Child Safe Standards

The NSW Child Safe Standards are an outcome of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse. They provide a framework for creating child safe organisations and are designed to drive cultural change to create, maintain and improve child safe practices.

10 Child Safe Standards explained in an infographic

The Standards are based on extensive research and consultation undertaken by the Royal Commission and when organisations apply the Standards they build a culture where abuse of children is prevented, responded to and reported.

The 10 Child Safe Standards provide clear guidance for organisations to create cultures, adopt strategies and act to put the interests of children first to keep them safe from harm.

A Guide to the Child Safe Standards