Safeguarding Week 2022
What can you do during Child Safeguarding Week?
- Sign a petition – a call to action! Sign our petition to change the Children’s Act 2014 and then share the petition link on your social media channels. Here is the petition link: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/document/PET_115624/petition-of-safeguarding-children-amend-the-children-s. Here is some messaging you can use: The Children’s Act isn’t doing enough to protect our children from people who are a risk to them at the places they go. The Children’s Act only applies to organisations that receive government funding, yet children will attend organisations, clubs and groups that receive no government funding. The Children’s Act doesn’t include police vetting or reference checking of volunteers, meaning a volunteer wanting to abuse a child can slip through, and they do. Children deserve better and so do we as parents and carers. ✓ Click here to sign. This is open until 31 October 2022. Please share this post.
- WATCH and SHARE a FREE 30-minute webinar on safeguarding in organisations.
Parents and caregivers have high levels of concern, expectation and trust in organisations to keep their children safe. However, there is a disconnect between their expectations and the actions that organisations take to ensure children are safe.
This webinar will introduce you to the core elements of a child safe organisation and the steps an organisation can take to make their places safer for children. You will be guided to the development work your organisation needs to make to move forward on this journey.
Click here to access the webinar yourself or use this link to copy and paste in a post: https://safeguardingchildren.org.nz/seminar-register-form/?InfoodleFormName=7ae34586-d49d-4e63-9684-a3e6581d3662
