Child Safe Statement
Castlemaine Health’s Child Safe Statement
Castlemaine Health is committed to:
• Enhancing the wellbeing of children in our services by ensuring their safety and by providing services in a safe environment free from physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, violence and/or preventable injury
• Empowering and actively involving children in decision making, respecting their choices and acknowledging that they are active participants in their services
• Maintaining internal systems to protect children from abuse such as:
- risk identification and mitigation
- Working with Children Checks for all staff providing services to children
- staff training and development
- incident management systems
- feedback management systems.
• Providing a consistent, sensitive and timely response to children who experience abuse or neglect or where abuse or neglect is suspected
• Responding to allegations of misconduct or abuse in ways that ensure children are protected from future harm
• Maintaining legal responsibilities for reporting and co-operating with agencies, such as Police and Government, in safeguarding children
• Designing and delivering services in accordance with the Child Safe Standards and the following principles:
- promoting the cultural safety of Aboriginal children
- promoting the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
- promoting the safety of children with a disability
• Promoting Castlemaine Health’s ‘Code of Conduct When Working with Children and Young People’.