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Under the Child Safe Organisations Act (the Act), the Queensland Family and Child Commission (the Commission) is responsible for monitoring and reporting on the operation of the Child Safe Organisations system. This will include:
- educating organisations about their rights and responsibilities
- publishing guidelines and resources to help organisations comply
- providing an assessment report to an organisation, or directing them to do a self-assessment, so we can provide guidance or recommendations about compliance
- accepting a written, enforceable undertaking about actions that an organisation will do or will stop doing
- issuing a compliance notice.
We are developing an enforcement framework in consultation with other regulators and sector stakeholders – but while we will have a role to play in regulating and enforcing the Act, our focus will be on working cooperatively with entities to support their compliance, particularly in the early stages of implementation.
This means we’ll phase our compliance activities wherever possible to allow organisations to adapt gradually and sustainably, and we are here to educate, guide, and partner with you every step of the way.
Implementation responsibilities
Oversight body:
- become a Child Safe Organisation
- raise awareness in Queensland of Child Safe Organisations System
- collaborate with sector leads on implementation
- equip and empower the sector to create child safe cultures
- quality assure resources
- connect organisations with their relevant sector lead
- oversee information sharing, monitoring and reporting mechanisms.
Regulators and Governing and Funding bodies:
- become a Child Safe Organisation (where relevant)
- align child safe legislative requirements within existing governance and quality frameworks
- prepare and provide resources appropriate for their sector and consult with the Commission
- ensure their sector is implementing requirements
- work with peak and representative bodies and child safe entities to implement requirements
- report implementation progress to the Commission as oversight body
- work with the Commission on establishing information sharing, monitoring and reporting mechanisms
- engage children and families in their work.
Peak and representative bodies:
- become a Child Safe Organisation (where relevant)
- prepare and provide resources appropriate for their sector and consult with sector leads
- consult with organisations on needs and seek support from sector leads and the Commission
- contribute to collaboration on insights, lessons learned and child safe practices from child safe implementation
- enable organisations to implement requirements
- engage children and families in their work.
*Representative bodies cover groups such as committees, reference groups, networks, associations, memberships and such, that aren’t considered ‘peak’ but hold significant influence.
Queensland organisations:
- become a Child Safe Organisation
- build a culture of safety and wellbeing for all children
- provide input to development of sector specific resources through existing governance, peak and representative bodies
- work with sector leads and enablers to implement requirements
- contribute to collaboration on insights, lessons learned and child safe practices from child safe implementation
- seek support from sector leads and enablers where needed
- engage children and families in their work.
Last updated
4 July 2025
