The Child Safe Action Plan

DCJ's first Child Safe Action Plan (CSAP) (PDF, 2.4 MB) outlines the strategies and tasks that DCJ, as a prescribed agency under the Childrens Guardian Act 2019, will implement and perform to improve child safety across the sector. It details the activities being undertaken to build awareness about the importance of child safety; and grow the capacity of organisations to implement the NSW Child Safe Scheme's 10 Child Safe Standards to improve the safety of children, including in services provided by or for DCJ. 

The implementation of the CSAP is an ongoing process to drive continual improvement to child safety across the Department’s functions and services, and those of our funded service partners. This initial Plan focuses on:

• promoting the Child Safe Standards, and educating stakeholders about child safety and child rights
• assessing departmental risks and identifying opportunities for service and process improvements
• establishing a framework for monitoring, evaluation and continual improvement.

The outcomes DCJ seeks through implementation of the CSAP are:

• NSW children and young people are safe in the organisations in which they learn, play, and live 
• reduction in child abuse in organisational settings
• improved responses to and reporting of child abuse.