Safe & Fair Environments
(Child & Member Protection)

Is your club complying with legal requirements?

• Information for Clubs regarding changes to the Child Protection Act which will impact , from 2011, those organisation which provide  services wholly or partly to children (115kb PDF)
  
  
• From January 2011 all organisations that offer sporting and recreational services wholly or partly to children must lodge a statement outlining their child safe environment policies and procedures with the Department for Families and Communities.
  For further information and statement templates:
  http://www.dfc.sa.gov.au/pub/
  
  
• Police Checks & Mandated Reporting
  
  
• Standards for dealing with information obtained about the criminal history of employees and volunteers who work with children (1.19mb PDF)
  
  
• Principles that sporting organisations must legally comply with and simple ideas on how to implement them. Hard copies are available. Protecting Children - What clubs have to do and how to do it (922kb PDF).

Strategies for Child and Member Protection

• Your Association, State Sporting Organisation (SSO) or National body may already have a Member Protection policy that you can adapt. Contact them first.
  If not you can adapt these templates for your organisation which have been updated to reflect the current Child Protection Legislation. Further information is also available on the Australian Sports Commission website
  State Sporting Organisation template(293KB)
  Club Template (206KB)
  
  

• Codes of Behaviour and how to use them.



• Everything you need to know about your responsibilities for event, competition and safety management.



• Inclusion - Encouraging people from different backgrounds, cultures and abilities to be involved in sport.

Training

• Child Safe Officer, Member Protection Information Officer, conflict management, mandated reporting and other Training in Child and Member Protection

Dealing with Issues, Incidents and Complaints

• Procedures and referrals for clubs dealing with issues, incidents & complaints.

For more information
Senior Project Officer
Safe Supportive Environments
Office for Recreation and Sport
Phone: +61 8 7424 7622
Email: participation@sa.gov.au

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