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Promoting the safety and wellbeing of children
 
   
   
   

 

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The Child Safety Commissioner

The Office of the Child Safety Commissioner is an organisation that makes children a priority. The Commissioner provides advice to both the Minister for Community Services and the Minister for Children on issues impacting on the lives of children, in particular vulnerable children. This is achieved through listening to children, advocating on their behalf, being impartial, leading on child-safe practices, acting with integrity, and being held accountable.

Our core functions include:

number 1 Promoting child-safe environments
number 2 Monitoring Victoria's out-of-home care system
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Conducting inquiries into the deaths of children known to the child protection service system and into other matters referred by the Minister for Children

number 4 Reviewing the administration of the Working with Children Act 2005 and educating and informing the community about the Act

 

what we're currently doing
5 August, 2008ariety of out-of home care settings such as foster care and residential care to listen to their views and experiences

Distributing and promoting our recent publications: Great Expectations, Calmer Classrooms, Wise choices: Safe children to parents, educators, health and welfare professionals and CALD communities

Looking at the impact of frequency of court-ordered access on infants
Facilitating a partnership between DHS and agencies to coordinate a debutante ball for young people in care.
Developing a series of resources for grandparents and relative carers
Preparing a resource for parents of shool aged children on the impact of abuse and neglect
Facilitating a Horn of Africa forum to promote and showcase educational opportunities for young refugees
Workshopping research findings on how youth are being portrayed by the media

 

 

 

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Senate Coat of Arms Submission to Senate inquiry into media sexualisation of children (244K, pdf)
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Submission to the Australian Youth Forum (152K, pdf)
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Supporting children in out-of-home care to achieve at school
(3.38Mb, pdf)
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Calmer Classrooms -
Guide to working with traumatised children(247Kb, pdf)

image of front cover of annual report Annual Report 2006-07(2,707Kb, pdf)
image of charter Charter for children in out-of-home care (102Kb, pdf)
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Selecting child-safe activities Information for Parents: Selecting child-safe activities
A guide for creating a child-safe organisation A Guide for Creating a Child-safe Organisation

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