Members are required to extend this compliance indicator and verifiers to partners through MOUs or similar.
Policy document applicable to all governing body Members, staff, volunteers and visitors to projects, that commits the Member to:
- Effective leadership to enable the safeguarding of children.
- Communication of the Child Safeguarding Policy and practices to all governing body Members, staff, volunteers and visitors to project.
- Recruitment screening processes for all personnel in contact with children which include:
- Criminal record checks before engagement; statutory declarations or local legal equivalent where criminal record checks are unavailable or unreliable.
- Verbal referee checks.
The following additional screening measure for all personnel working with children;- Behavioural-based interview questions.
- Processes for assessing risk and monitoring and evaluating risk and child safeguarding processes at all stages of the initiative.
- Use of images and personal information for promotion, fundraising and development education which ensures the privacy and safeguarding of children.
- If relevant, an overview of the processes to ensure child safeguarding in sponsorship/overseas volunteer programs and other high risk activities that facilitate access to children and young people.
- Child safeguarding training for all personnel.
- Employment contracts which contain provisions for the prevention of a person from working with children if they present an unacceptable risk to children; dismissal, suspension or transfer to other duties for any employee who breaches the child protection code of conduct.
- Regular reviews of the child safeguarding policy.
Guidance
Refer to ACFID's guidelines for developing a Child Protection Policy in the Resources Section below.
Members receiving funding from DFAT should also consider the requirements of DFAT's Child Protection Policy, as provided below.