Child Protection

AISNSW assists schools with a range of child protection matters including investigations, reporting and relevant government regulations. The AISNSW Child Protection Team provides a daily Intake Service to ensure timely and high-level advice to member schools for all child protection related matters.

MOU between Department of Family and Community Services and the AISNSW

This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relates to the reporting requirements of Section 27 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998  (the Act) and the endorsement of the continuation of centralised reporting for Risk of Significant Harm (ROSH) reports.

The endorsement of centralised reporting across the sector will bring about a consistent approach to reporting within schools across the non-government school sector and NSW and bring about greater collaboration between DCJ and independent schools, whilst still meeting the requirement of mandatory reporting under Section 27 of the Act.

Child Protection Team

Student Safety and Consent Portal

The AISNSW Student Safety and Consent Unit supports NSW independent schools to further their existing approaches to safety, consent and respect and the prevention of and response to sexual assault and sexual violence. Principal login required to access.
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AISNSW Guide to Responding to Problematic and Harmful Sexual Behaviour

AISNSW is pleased to announce a new resource for member schools to assist in responding to and managing problematic and harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people in schools.

Note: The sample proformas are available separately to download as Microsoft Word documents through the AISNSW Resource Centre.

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Child Protection Awareness Videos for Parents and Community

AISNSW is pleased to release two new resources for member schools. We have created two videos, one for junior schools and one for secondary schools, to build parent and community awareness of child safety in schools. Principal login required to access.
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Child Safe Standards and the Child Safe Scheme

AISNSW supports independent schools to implement Child Safe Standards so they can apply child safety into everyday behaviours, attitudes, and practices of within the school’s culture.
Our training program - 'Creating Safer Independent Schools - Session 2' - draws on current research, providing a range of practical strategies and tools to further assist schools to examine the Child Safe Standards, and how they can implement these to demonstrate best practice.
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Documents and Resources

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