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Surrey Park Swimming is a child safe organisation which welcomes all children, young people, and their families.
We are committed to providing environments where children are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives. Our child safe framework is inclusive of the needs of all children. We have no tolerance for child abuse and take proactive steps to identify and manage any risks of harm to children in our environment. We promote positive relationships between children and adults and between children and their peers. These relationships are based on trust and respect.
We take proactive steps to identify and manage any risk of harm to children in our care. When child safety concerns are raised or identified, we treat these seriously and respond promptly and thoroughly.
Particular attention is given to the child safety needs of first nations children, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, international children, children with disabilities, those unable to live at home, children and young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) and other children experiencing risk or vulnerability. Inappropriate or harmful behaviour targeting children based on these or other characteristics, such as racism or homophobia, are not tolerated, and any instances identified will be addressed with appropriate consequences.
Child safety is a shared responsibility. Every person involved in our community has an important role in promoting child safety and wellbeing and promptly raising any issues or concerns about a child’s safety. We are committed to regularly reviewing our child safe practices, and seeking input from our young people, families, staff, and volunteers to inform our ongoing strategies.
If you have a concern about child safety at Surrey Park Swimming, please email our child safety officer.
We are committed to implementing the Victorian Child Safety Standards (https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/child-safe-standards/), to achieve this we have:
Our statement of commitment to child safety (blog below)
Our statement of commitment to Aboriginal children (blog below)
Surrey Park Swimming upholds an inclusive culture and is committed to:
The Victorian Child Safe Standards and Swimming Australia’s Child Safeguarding Policy confirm the shared responsibility everybody in the swimming community has to ensure there is an overarching culture of child safety.
Surrey Park Swimming has developed a child safety & wellbeing framework in accordance with Victorian Child Safe Standards.
Surrey Park Swimming’s safe sport stance
Copies of these policies can be accessed through the national integrity framework page on Swimming Australia’s website. https://www.swimming.org.au/resources/swimming-national-integrity-framework
Surrey Park members are required at all times to comply with any child safe codes of conduct which the club may adopt. Specific additional codes of conduct apply for club members participating in team camps and trips. In accordance with Swimming Australia’s child safeguarding policy and the Victorian child safe standards, all applicants for employment at Surrey Park Swimming are required to undergo extensive screening and background checks. All paid staff, committee members, officials and other volunteers who could potentially have unsupervised contact with children are required to have a valid Working with Children Check.
Surrey Park Swimming is a child safe organisation which welcomes all children, young people, and their families.
We are committed to providing environments where children are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives. Our child safe framework is inclusive of the needs of all children.
We have no tolerance for child abuse and take proactive steps to identify and manage any risks of harm to children in our environment. We promote positive relationships between children and adults and between children and their peers. These relationships are based on trust and respect.
We take proactive steps to identify and manage any risk of harm to children in our care. When child safety concerns are raised or identified, we treat these seriously and respond promptly and thoroughly.
Particular attention is given to the child safety needs of First Nations children, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, international children, children with disabilities, those unable to live at home, children and young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) and other children experiencing risk or vulnerability.
Inappropriate or harmful behaviour targeting children based on these or other characteristics, such as racism or homophobia, are not tolerated, and any instances identified will be addressed with appropriate consequences.
Child safety is a shared responsibility. Every person involved in our community has an important role in promoting child safety and wellbeing and promptly raising any issues or concerns about a child’s safety.
We are committed to regularly reviewing our child safe practices, and seeking input from our young people, families, staff, and volunteers to inform our ongoing strategies.
Surrey Park Swimming is proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as traditional custodians of the land and we pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Elders, past, present, and emerging who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the region’s history.
We are committed to providing programs and services that support children of all cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal Children. We believe that all children should be treated equally and be supported in expressing their unique cultural identity.
