Child Safe Organisation

Cabonne Council is committed to being a child safe organisation by embedding the NSW Child Safe Standards into its organisation leadership, governance and culture, and practices across the Shire.

Our Commitment

Cabonne Council is committed to safeguarding all children’s sense of wellbeing and rights to reach their full potential and to keeping children safe from harm and abuse.

We work to empower children to find their own voices and understand that children play an important role in creating vibrant, positive communities, and are our communities of the future.

We recognise that disrespect, harm and abuse can have long-lasting effects on healthy development, and that these can lead to serious lifelong consequences. Cabonne Council has zero tolerance of child abuse in our organisation.

We are working to embed the NSW Child Safe Standards into our organisational leadership, governance, and culture and by adopting strategies and acting to put the interests of children first and keep them safe from harm.

At Cabonne Council:

• We want children to be safe, resilient, happy and empowered.
• We want children to be connected to each other, community and culture.
• We respect and uphold children’s right to privacy.
• We support and respect children of all ages, cultures, religions, education levels, children of diverse sexualities and genders and children with disability.
• We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.
• All allegations and safety concerns are treated seriously and consistently.
• We have legal obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety.
• We are committed to preventing child abuse by identifying risks early and removing and reducing these risks.
• We are implementing robust human resources and recruitment processes to reduce the risk of child abuse.
• We work closely with our contracted service providers to ensure the services they are delivering on our behalf are child safe.
• We are committed to regularly training and educating our employees, volunteers, senior leaders and councillors on child abuse risks and obligations to prevent abuse and respond appropriately.
• We are committed to continually improving our child safeguarding policy and processes.

Our Child Safe Framework

The Child Safe Policy.pdf(PDF, 233KB) informs out policies, procedures and actions that relate to:

• Recruitment and Selection
• Responding and Reporting
• Allegations and Reportable Conduct
• Implementing Child Safe Standards

Child Safety concerns

If you believe a child is in immediate danger, you will need to call the Police on 000 (triple zero).

You can report any concerns about safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people to Cabonne Council's Child Safe Contact Officer's:

• Phone (02) 6392 3200 between the hours of 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday to Friday and ask to speak to the Child Safe Contact Officer

• Face to face meeting with the Child Safe Contact Officer. You will need to call to book a meeting in using the number above.
• Email our Child Safe Contact Officer's at council@cabonne.nsw.gov.au

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