This resource supports services to identify, assess, document and manage risks relating to children’s safety, welfare and wellbeing in alignment with:

✔ NSW Child Safety Reforms
✔ Regulation 168(2)(h)
✔ Child Safe Standards
✔ National Quality Framework
✔ QA2 – Children’s Health and Safety
✔ QA7 – Governance and Leadership

This practical pack has been created to help services move beyond basic compliance and develop meaningful, child-focused risk management systems that demonstrate paramountcy in practice.

What’s Included

✔ Child Safe Risk Assessment Compliance Checklist

A detailed governance and compliance checklist supporting services to review:

• child-safe environments
• supervision risks
• staffing risks
• digital technology risks
• cultural safety considerations
• inclusion and accessibility
• child-safe interactions
• governance systems
• documentation and evidence requirements

✔ Child Safe Risk Assessment Template

A comprehensive editable template designed to help services:

• identify child safety risks
• document existing controls
• assess risk ratings
• implement corrective actions
• allocate responsibilities
• review ongoing risks
• strengthen governance oversight

Includes:
✔ service-specific risk categories
✔ supervision and visibility risks
✔ harmful sexual behaviour considerations
✔ digital safety risks
✔ visitor and contractor risks
✔ cultural safety reflections
✔ inclusion and communication considerations
✔ review triggers
✔ governance sign-off sections

Perfect For

✔ Long Day Care Services
✔ Preschools
✔ Community-Based Services
✔ Family Day Care Coordination Units
✔ Outside School Hours Care
✔ Educational Leaders
✔ Nominated Supervisors
✔ Approved Providers