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title: South Australian Child Safe/Child Safeguarding Program Update July 2021
description: Briefing paper on Child Safe/Child Safeguarding program updates for schools in South Australia.
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## South Australian Child Safe/Child Safeguarding Program Update July 2021

30/07/21

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Chapter 8 of the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 (SA) (Safety Act) requires certain organisations, including non-government schools, to provide a child safe environment.

Under section 114 of the Safety Act, these organisations must lodge a child safe environments compliance statement with the Department of Human Services (DHS) as soon as reasonably practicable after preparing, adopting, varying or substituting the organisation’s policies and procedures for ensuring a child safe environment.

 

Section 115 of the Safety Act requires that these policies and procedures must be reviewed every five years, at a minimum. Together, these requirements mean that non-government schools must:

- lodge an initial child safe environments statement when they first prepare or adopt their child safe policies and procedures
- review these policies and procedures at least every five years
- lodge an additional child safe environments compliance statement every time their policies or procedures are varied or substituted, whether as a result of their internal review cycle (whether every five years or more frequently), of legislative change, or otherwise.

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