The National Office for Child Safety has developed resources to support organisations working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and communities to implement the 10 National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
The Office said the National Principles gave organisations across Australia a consistent approach to embedding child safety and wellbeing.
It said the new Keeping Our Kids Safe resources applied a cultural lens to the Principles to help organisations think about how to make themselves more child safe, in a culturally safe way.
“Cultural safety is the positive recognition and celebration of cultures,” the Office said.
“It is more than just the absence of racism or discrimination and more than ‘cultural awareness’ and ‘cultural sensitivity’,” it said.
“It empowers people and enables them to contribute and feel safe to be themselves.”
The Office said that in a child safe, culturally safe organisation, children, young people, family and community members felt that their culture and identity were respected.
It said the new resources included an animated video that gave viewers an introduction to the National Principles through a cultural lens and a guide which provided advice on how to implement the Principles in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities.
The Office’s Keeping Our Kids Safe resources can be accessed at this PS News link.
