It's Everyone's Responsibility

Here at CTOS we are committed to the safety and protection of children and young people and our commitment means we will:

• help to raise awareness of this issue amongst the organisations that we support; and

• encourage all organisations to have appropriate policy and practices in place.

We work closely with Child Matters (New Zealand's specialist provider of child protection related training and professional development) and plan to support a range of activities so people and organisations in our area are equipped to protect children and young people and are able to provide environments that are safe.

Resources, guides and other support information:

• Vulnerable Children Act

• Childrens Action Plan
  • Safer Recruitment Safer Children - provides organisations with good practice advice on selecting safe people to work with children. 
  • Safer Organisations Safer Children - contains good practice advice for organisations about developing high quality child protection policies for identifying and responding to child vulnerability in response to the new requirements in the Vulnerable Children Act 2014.

• Child Matters
  • Child Protection Policy - about child protection policies.
  • Organisation Health Check - lets you know how robust your organisation's child protection policy is.
  • Policy Advisory Service - where to get information, support and advice on planning, developing and implementing child protection policy.

• SportNZ
  • Safe Sport for Children - provides information on how sports organisations can reduce the risk of harm to participating children. 
  • Good Practice Principles - outlines 10 principles for delivering sport and recreation for children and young people.