Safeguarding Children
Football NSW is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in Football in NSW and to continuously working to improve child safe practices and to uphold the child safe culture in all affiliated Football clubs, associations, branches and referee associations.
Child Safe Standards
Child Safe Standards – Getting Started
The Child Safe Standards are compulsory for all sport organisations including clubs, associations, branches, referee branches.
If your club or association is just getting started or is still progressing with the Standards, the NSW OCG has developed a webpage to help organisations get started.
Weblink: Child Safe Standards – Getting started in your Organisation
Weblink: Child Safe Scheme – A Guide for Board and Committee Members
Child Safe Standards – What are they?
The 10 Child Safe Standards were recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to provide a framework that helps organisations keep children safe from harm. The Standards help to embed child safety in the attitudes, behaviours and practices of organisations and the people who work and volunteer in them.
The 10 Standards
- Child safety is embedded in organisational leadership, governance and culture
- Children participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously
- Families and communities are informed and involved
- Equity is upheld and diverse needs are taken into account
- People working with children are suitable and supported
- Processes to respond to complaints of child abuse are child-focused
- Staff are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children safe through continual education and training
- Physical and online environments minimise the opportunity for abuse to occur
- Implementation of the Child Safe Standards is continuously reviewed and improved
- Policies and procedures document how the organisation is child safe.
Video: Click here to view the 10 Standards video series
Understanding the Child Safe Standards
Video: Watch the video below for an Introduction to the Child Safe Standards and the Child Safe Scheme
Child Safe Standards – Compliance
The NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian regularly audits sport organisations including football clubs, associations and branches for compliance with the NSW Child Safe Standards and the NSW Working with Children Check. so it’s important that your club has everything in place to help keep children safe.
Guidelines and Resources
Child Safe Training
Destination Safe Sport Videos : Team tours
- Destination-Safe Sport Series (All)
- Planning a team trip (Part 1)
- Planning a team trip (Part 2)
- Team trips - Before you go
- Team trips - At the event
- Team trips - Overseas travel
- Team trips - Inclusive travel