KIDS MATTER: Safe and secure cultural environments for children in the Australian Capital Territory
Peter Appleton, Helena Bezzina, Kelee Hodge, Emily Pollnitz, Libby Stewart
Abstract
This CMDP project is designed to assist cultural institutions to meet their responsibility to provide a safe environment for children and families. It offers a generic framework to support the establishment of child safety policies and correlates procedures into a generic Child Safety Toolkit. This Toolkit can be used by any (and hopefully all) cultural institutions in the ACT to produce a customised Child Safety Policy and set of procedures to both prevent harm to children, and to deal with incidents should they arise.
It should be noted that the aim of this project has specifically been children and their guardians who attend cultural institution in an informal manner. It does not address visitation by children in organised school groups, which are usually dealt with separately by institutions’ education sections.
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