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Child Protection Education

WA Child Safety Services

The WACSS Child Protection Education workshops for WA schools help provide essential skills to educators with children and young people, to recognise and respond to child abuse and neglect.

  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: WA Department of Education; Approved elsewhere: eSafety

Product type: Fact sheets; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool

Contact details

WA Child Safety Services
ABN: 18 167 401 747

https://wacss.com.au/programs/child-protection-education/

admin@wacss.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Technologies

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

Based on the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, the workshop outlines steps that organisations can take to promote safety, engagement and the wellbeing of children and young people and prevent harm within their organisation.

The facilitators share sector knowledge and experience to build the capacity of educators to identify and respond to child abuse, neglect, and grooming. This workshop meets requirements for NQS, and both government and non-government school registration.

Workshops are available face-to-face or online. Travel charges apply outside the Perth metropolitan area.

  • Child Protection and Mandatory Reporting Workshop (2.5 hours)
  • Grooming in Child Sexual Abuse (2 hours)

WA Child Safety Services is an expert in the sector and a selected provider for Department of Education staff across Western Australia.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

The program meets the following standards:

  • Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) National Quality Standard Element 2.2.3 Child Protection
  • Department of Education Non-Government Schools Standard 10 Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse
  • Child Protection in Department of Education Sites Policy