Training hub

Training

• The Australian Human Rights Commission has developed E-learning modules to assist organisations to understand the National Principles.
• Australian Human Rights Commission Learning Hub contains training resources to increase your understanding of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and help you consider how organisations can approach implementation.
• National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) offers free, online professional development workshops to help organisations become child safe and implement the national principles. 

Additional training

• University of Tasmania Introduction to Children’s Rights and Safety is an online short course designed to build awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the role you play in ensuring children’s voices are heard and taken seriously.
• Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) and their Community Door provide human rights information and training for Queensland based social services organisations.
• Bravehearts provides education and training courses to equip people supporting and working with children to create and maintain child safe environments. There is a cost associated. 

Children’s development and wellbeing

• ARACY provides What is wellbeing? – a short video to help people understand what the term wellbeing means.
• Emerging Minds Learning portal provides free online courses and resources to help support people working with children and families.
• Emerging Minds Pathways provides learning pathways that could be useful for organisations needing to build staff knowledge and understanding and elevate child safe practices. The following pathways could be of particular interest:
  • Building blocks for children’s social and emotional wellbeing
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and emotional wellbeing
  • Engaging with Children
  • Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities
  • Interpersonal Trauma
  • Disability

Other Australian jurisdictions

There are other jurisdictions that have implemented child safe standards and reportable conduct schemes and have produced resources to support organisations. 

Find links below, but please note that there are some differences in how cultural safety is addressed, how reportable conduct schemes operate and the obligations placed on organisations regarding how they implement the standards.

• Western Australia Department of Communities
• Commissioner for Children and Young People (WA)
• Commission for Children and Young People (VIC)
• Office of the Children’s Guardian (NSW)
• Commissioner for Children and Young People Tasmania
• Office of the Independent Regulator (TAS)

Last updated
10 June 2025