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  • Reducing risk
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  • Choosing the right people
  • Kids participation
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  • Managing complaints
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• Offender Counsellors
• Commitment to service

Through their participation, children and young people can make an important contribution to helping organisations become more child-safe and child-friendly.

Participation for kids means they are involved in making decisions about policies, programs and services. This helps kids to learn more about how organisations work and what to do if a situation arises that makes them uncomfortable.

Participation helps to:

• build children and young people’s self esteem and confidence
• encourage them to respect the views of others (peers and adults)
• strengthen their relationships within the organisation

Organisations can become child-safe and child-friendly by providing services and activities where kids:

• have a say in planning activities and decisions that affect them
• are listened to
• have their views respected and valued
• have their ideas taken seriously

Children and young people’s participation could include:

• getting their ideas on your organisation’s code of conduct, policy and program activities
• involving a young person when decisions are made that will affect them eg. staff selection and canteen advisory committees
• providing leadership training and roles for kids
• consulting with kids about issues that affect them

For more information on how to include children and young people, follow the link to the Commission’s TAKING PARTicipation seriously kit.