Human Rights Commission Regulation 2023

The following standards are prescribed:

child safety and wellbeing is embedded in organisational leadership, governance and culture;

children and young people are informed about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously;

families and communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing;

equity is upheld and diverse needs are respected in policy and practice;

people working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice;

processes to respond to complaints and concerns are child focused;

staff and volunteers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and awareness to keep children and young people safe through ongoing education and training;

physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed;

an organisation’s implementation of the child safe standards is regularly reviewed and improved;

an organisation’s policies and procedures document how the organisation is safe for children and young people.

Dictionary

(see s 2)

Note 1 The Legislation Act contains definitions relevant to this regulation. For

example:  health practitioner

 may (see s 146)

 must (see s 146)

 person (see s 160).

Note 2 Terms used in this regulation have the same meaning that they have in the Human Rights Commission Act 2005. For example, the following terms are defined in the Human Rights Commission Act 2005, dict:

 child safe standards

 code of conduct

 commission

 complaint

 health care worker

 health service (see s 7)

 relevant professional body.

client, of a health care worker, for part 2 (Code of conduct for health care workers—Act, s 94C)—see section 4.