Safe Church Material - Supporting Documents
These resources relate to Safe Church policy, procedure and practice and include downloadable documents for use within congregations and organisations.
Government Compliance Information
Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse by People in Religious Ministry
To see the relevant information about mandatory reporting - select your state below:
- Overview for all states
- Victoria
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- Tasmania
- ACT
Working With Children Check legislation
To see the CRCA Working With Children Check information - select your state below:
To check if an individual's Working With Children Check is valid - select your state below:
- Victoria
- New South Wales - you need to be registered
- Queensland
- South Australia - prepare a request and submit it
- Western Australia
- Tasmania
All CRCA personnel in some states aged 18 and over must familiarise themselves and act in accordance with these laws.
- Victoria: 'Failure to Protect'
- Victoria: 'Failure to Disclose' law
- Victoria: 'Grooming'
- New South Wales: Failure to Protect & Report
- South Australia: Role of Mandated Reporters
- Western Australia: Mandatory Reporting
- ACT: Failure to Protect & Report
Additional Resources - Children & Youth
- Our Christian Culture of Safeguarding Children
- Listening to our Children and Youth & Encouraging them to Participate
- Risk Assessment of Children and Youth Ministries
- Telling our children
- Online Safety for children and teens
- Help for children and teens: dealing with unwanted contact online
- Cyberbullying - information for parents and children
- Help for parents: Dealing with unwanted online contact with children