Child Protection Policy V1.0

The purpose of this policy is:

• To ensure that Council is compliant with NSW child protection legislation, including mandatory reporting, recruitment and selection and responding to allegations against staff involving children and young people.
• To articulate the professional and legal obligations of council staff in relation to child protection.
• To ensure council implements procedures for the prompt and confidential response to all allegations against Council staff, volunteers, students, and persons undertaking work experience and contractors/suppliers where a child or young person is involved.
• To promote the health, safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people.
• To ensure that Council provides a safe environment for children and young people whilst on Council premises and utilising Council services.
• To ensure that Council is implementing best practice approaches to child protection and child safe standards, and in this regard is responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse 2017, that affect local government.