All child-related organisations will benefit from implementing the Child Safe Standards. However, there are many organisations in NSW that must implement the Child Safe Standards under the Child Safe Scheme.
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Entities required to implement the Child Safe Standards through their systems, policies and procedures are:
- clubs or other bodies providing programs or services of a sport and recreation nature, and in which workers are required to hold a WWCC
- religious bodies that provide services to children, or in which adults have contact with children
- local councils
- government and non-government schools, and the Department of Education
- approved education and care services
- the TAFE Commission
- the Ministry of Health, local health districts, statutory health corporations, and affiliated health organisations
- the Ambulance Service of NSW
- designated agencies and adoption service providers
- parts of Youth Justice
- parts of the Department of Communities and Justice
- agencies providing specialised substitute residential care for children
- entities providing specialised substitute residential care.
‘Child Safe Organisation’ is defined in Schedule 6 of the Children’s Guardian Act, which also defines a number of other terms used above.
