AUSTRALIA
Daily Liberal

12 Apr 2017

The NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) said on Tuesday it has launched a free online learning tool to help staff and volunteers in all child-related organisations build their capacity to become child-safe.

This forms part of the Child Safe Strategy for NSW and will complement the draft Child Safe Principles which have now been released for public consultation, OCG said.

It said the eLearning initiative is a free resource for all child-related organisations and means quality training is available at the click of a button to all child-related organisations in remote, rural or regional areas.

“The OCG’s Child Safe Organisations eLearning is made up of eight key modules and addresses real issues including how to identify and respond to potential risks in the organisation, identifying grooming practices, developing policies and guidelines for workers, how to recruit and retain staff and how…