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Child Safety

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

Youth groups and services

Programs and partnerships EOI
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Junction Support Services
The Hive Youth Resource Centre
headspace Albury Wodonga
Ask Izzy
Kids Helpline
Early Years and Young Peoples Plan
Young people
We will demonstrate our commitment by:

The Standards have been designed to:

  • help drive cultural change in organisations
  • be principle-based and outcome-focused
  • be flexible enough that they can be adapted by organisations of varying sizes and characteristics
  • avoid placing undue burden on organisations
  • help organisations address multiple risks
  • balance caution and caring
  • be a benchmark against which organisations can assess their child safe capability and set performance targets
  • be of equal importance and interrelated

A Child Safe Organisation:

  • Puts the best interests of children and young people first.
  • Creates an environment where children’s safety and wellbeing is at the centre of thought, values and actions.
  • Places emphasis on genuine engagement with and valuing of children and young people.
  • Creates conditions that reduce the likelihood of harm to children and young people.
  • Creates conditions that increase the likelihood of identifying any harm.
  • Responds to any concerns, disclosures, allegations or suspicions of harm.

The NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian has provided a series of short and informative videos about each of the 10 Child Safe Standards. You can find them here: Child Safe Standards – YouTube.

  • If a child is in immediate danger, call the Police on 000.
  • If you think a child/ren or young person is at risk of harm from abuse or neglect, contact the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111.
PhoneCall 02 6023 8111
Emailinfo@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
MailAlburyCity’s Child Safe Officer
553 Kiewa St
Albury, NSW 2640
In personOrganise a meeting via the above methods.

Complaints and concerns can be made directly to the service or contact Council.

A child protection allegation is a suspected or confirmed concern involving a Council staff member or representative and a child.

More info:Reportable Conduct Scheme

Online safety tools and resources are available for parents, caregivers, children and young people.

Confidential counselling is available for all ages.

We’ll be updating our Child Safe webpage regularly.

Everyone using an AlburyCity facility must follow child safety requirements.

Banjora Children's Centre

Banjora Children’s Centre is a not-for-profit long day care service, offering high-quality care and early learning for up to 50 children, aged 6 weeks to 5 years.

OOSH (Out of School Hours)

Our Out of School Hours (OOSH) programs provide care before and after school for children from Kindergarten to Year 6

Vacation Care

Our Vacation Care programs provide care during school holidays for children from Kinder to Year 6.

Young people

To ensure all young people are connected, empowered, engaged and included, we provide, promote and support activities, services, events and opportunities.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

AlburyCity acknowledges the Wiradjuri people as the traditional custodians of the land in which we live and work and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, culture, tradition and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that contribute to our community.