About
Creating child safe environments is a shared responsibility, and it requires more than compliance or policies alone. Empowered to Protect supports educators to build the knowledge, confidence and reflective capacity needed to embed child safety as a lived, relational practice in everyday work.
This learning explores how child safety is strengthened through respectful relationships, inclusive practices and a culture where children’s voices are heard and taken seriously. Drawing on the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and relevant state and territory Child Safety Standards, educators are supported to understand what child-centred, rights-focused practice looks like in real-world settings.
Through evidence-informed discussion, practical examples and reflective scenarios, participants explore how to notice early signs of concern, respond with clarity and compassion, and advocate for environments where children feel safe, valued and protected across early childhood and OSHC contexts.
Please note: This course provides essential foundational knowledge but does not replace mandatory child protection training required by regulatory authorities.
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We will
- explore the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and unpack what a genuinely child-centred, rights-based culture looks and feels like in practice
- examine indicators of harm and risk through reflective, real-world scenarios that support educators to notice early warning signs
- strengthen confidence in responding to and reporting child safety concerns, with clarity around roles, responsibilities and legislative expectations
- reflect on how relational practice, inclusive environments and strong partnerships with families contribute to children’s safety and wellbeing
- explore Child Protection, Mandatory Reporting, Child Safe Standards, Reportable Conduct Schemes and state-based legislative requirements relevant to your jurisdiction
Participant Outcome
By the end of this course, participants will have:
- a strong foundational understanding of child safety principles, including the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and relevant state or territory requirements
- clarity around child protection legislation, ethical responsibilities and the roles educators play in responding to concerns
- increased confidence in recognising signs of abuse, neglect and harm, including subtle or cumulative indicators
- the capability to respond to and report child safety concerns in ways that uphold children’s rights, dignity and wellbeing
- greater capacity to create inclusive, culturally responsive and emotionally safe environments where children feel empowered to speak up
- a deeper understanding of how reflective, relational practice and collaboration with families strengthen protective factors within service communities
Theoretical underpinnings
National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
These principles provide the core foundation for understanding what safe cultures, safe environments and child-centred practices look like across all early childhood and OSHC settings.
United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF
A rights-based lens shapes the workshop’s focus on children’s agency, dignity and participation, ensuring decisions prioritise each child’s best interests.
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The Commission’s findings inform the workshop’s emphasis on prevention, early identification of harm and the systemic changes needed to protect children in organisational contexts.
ECA Code of Ethics
Early Childhood Australia
The ECA Code of Ethics underpins the workshop by guiding educators to act with integrity, respect and responsibility, ensuring that all decisions and actions prioritise children’s rights, safety and overall wellbeing.
National alignments
Quality Area 2: Children’s Health and Safety
- Elements 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3: Strengthens educators’ capabilities in supervision, risk awareness and child protection.
Quality Area 5: Relationships with Children
- Elements 5.1.1, 5.1.2: Supports safe, trusting relationships where children’s dignity, voices and rights are upheld.
Quality Area 7 – Governance and Leadership
- Elements 7.1.2, 7.2.1: Builds strong organisational systems that embed child safe principles into policy and everyday decision-making.
Standard 1.1 – Physical, social and intellectual development: strengthens educators’ understanding of children’s vulnerability, safety needs and developmental risk factors.
Standard 4.4 – Maintain student safety: deepens knowledge and confidence in recognising, responding to and reporting child safety concerns.
Standard 7.2 – Comply with legislative requirements: supports accurate interpretation of reporting obligations and organisational responsibilities.
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This workshop translates the 10 Queensland Child Safe Standards and the Reportable Conduct Scheme into clear, practical strategies that educators can apply in their daily practice. Participants explore what each requirement looks like in real scenarios, strengthening their confidence to recognise risks, respond to concerns and maintain environments where children feel safe, respected and able to speak up.
The workshop also reinforces the Universal Principle, supporting teams to build shared understandings and emphasising that decisions must always prioritise each child’s best interests, safety, dignity and wellbeing.
Access & Inclusion
- Builds educator capability to identify and remove barriers that compromise safety for vulnerable or marginalised children.
- Strengthens reflective practice that challenges bias, ensuring safer and more equitable experiences for all children.
Wellbeing (Social and Emotional)
- Reinforces relational safety, trust and co-regulation as protective factors that support children’s wellbeing.
- Equips educators with evidence-informed strategies to respond to emotional distress or behaviours that signal unmet safety needs.
This workshop supports Victorian educators to confidently navigate the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards and the Reportable Conduct Scheme by unpacking what these frameworks mean in practical, everyday contexts. Through discussion and applied examples, participants examine how each requirement can be enacted in ways that embed children’s rights, cultural safety and wellbeing.
The workshop helps services translate the Standards into consistent actions that strengthen safety, accountability and trust within their communities. Educators explore key expectations such as empowering children, creating culturally safe environments, and strengthening participation for diverse and vulnerable groups.
Online Course Option
Prefer to engage in this training from the comfort of your own home? We get it!
That's why we created the self-paced online course, with video content and downloadable workbooks.
