Creating a risk management strategy

The key elements an organisation needs to consider in creating a risk management strategy include:

• a child protection policy, which outlines:
  • a Code of Conduct
  • recruitment, training and management procedures for staff
  • reporting guidelines and directions for handling disclosures or suspicions of harm, and
  • consequences to staff for non-compliance with the policy
• communication and support strategies, such as:
  • information sheets for staff, volunteers and parents about policies, procedures and Codes of Conduct, and
  • training materials and communication strategies which help staff, volunteers and parents identify risks of harm
• documentation of risk management processes including:
  • registers of staff
  • strategies and plans for high-risk and special events
  • complaints registers, and
  • forms to ensure consistent handling of incidents, disclosures of harm, permissions and approvals for related activities.

Although the Commission provides free training, it cannot approve or ratify risk management strategies. Each organisation is required to determine whether their policies and practices are adequate to protect children in their care from harm and to promote their wellbeing.

 

 

 

Last Updated: July 1, 2008

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