All child-related organisations will benefit from implementing the Child Safe Standards. However, there are many organisations in NSW that must implement the Child Safe Standards under the Child Safe Scheme.
Entities required to implement the Child Safe Standards through their systems, policies and procedures are:
- clubs or other bodies providing programs or services of a sport and recreation nature, and in which workers are required to hold a WWCC
- religious bodies that provide services to children, or in which adults have contact with children
- local councils
- government and non-government schools, and the Department of Education
- approved education and care services
- the TAFE Commission
- the Ministry of Health, local health districts, statutory health corporations, and affiliated health organisations
- the Ambulance Service of NSW
- designated agencies and adoption service providers
- parts of Youth Justice
- parts of the Department of Communities and Justice
- agencies providing substitute residential care for children
- entities providing specialised substitute residential care.
‘Child Safe Organisation’ is defined in Schedule 6 of the Children’s Guardian Act, which also defines a number of other terms used above.