Our commitment to a child safe culture
Through a wide variety of programs, Communify Qld works to advocate for, connect with, and inform our community, promoting fairness, diversity, and social justice. Our services reach a diverse range of people and communities, and some of our programs involve working directly with families and children.
Statement of Commitment
At Communify, every child has the right to be safe and feel safe. We commit to the safety and wellbeing of every child in our care.
To keep children safe, we commit to:
- Implementing the Universal Principle and Child Safe Standards
- Providing a safe and supportive environment for all children
- Making sure that children are not exposed to any form of harmful conduct or abuse
- Empowering children to participate in decisions that affect them and share any concerns they may have
- Making sure children know who to approach if they feel unsafe or have any child safety concerns
As a child safe organisation, we commit to:
- Educating staff and volunteers in our organisation about what it means to be a child safe organisation, so that we can prevent, detect and effectively respond to child abuse
- Making sure staff and volunteers in our organisation understand how to appropriately respond to complaints, allegations, disclosures and breaches of our Child Safe Code of Conduct.
- Welcoming feedback to continuously improve our child safe policies, procedures and practices
- Making sure that when family and community members interact with our organisation, they are aware that child safety is everyone’s responsibility, and their behaviour aligns with our child safe practices
- Providing a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and a safe and accessible environment for children with a disability.
Our child safety policies
We have a range of policies and procedures that help us be a Child Safe organisation. These include: