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Children's Week WA 2024 18 to 27 October 2024

Celebrating our amazing children and inspiring the next generation

Oct 18, 2024
Children's Week 2024: a week of fun, learning, and advocacy for children throughout Western Australia
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New online portal helping more children and young people speak up

Sep 6, 2024
DLGSC has launched a new child friendly complaints webpage to provide children and young people with a dedicated online space to speak up and make a complaint about a DLGSC operated or funded service or program.
Three girls are high-fiving after a race at athletics club.

Launch of the Local Government Child Safety Self-assessment

May 30, 2024

LG Alert

Release of the Local Government Child Safety Self-assessment helps strengthens child safe practices
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Former WAIS gymnasts to be offered acknowledgement payments

May 29, 2024
The WA Government will offer acknowledgement payments to gymnasts who suffered physical and/or emotional harm while taking part in the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) coaching program that ran from 1988 to 2016.
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True Sport child safeguarding resources unveiled

Nov 10, 2023
Latest initiative to create and maintain safe environments for children and young people in sport.
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Child Safe Awareness Policy template for local government

Jun 12, 2023

LG Alert

In 2018 the State Government accepted or accepted in principle, all 310 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) applicable to Western Australia.

Ombudsman Webinar: Reportable Conduct Scheme

Nov 18, 2022

LG Alert

The Ombudsman WA is overseeing implementation of the Reportable Conduct Scheme (the Scheme) as recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

National Children’s Week and the DLGSC Child Safeguarding Unit

Oct 26, 2022

LG Alert

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Commission) recognised the important role that local governments play in developing community awareness about child safety.
Page reviewed 23 August 2023
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