Child Safe & Wellbeing
As a society, it is our responsibility to protect children and ensure their safety. It is important for organisations to have clear and comprehensive child safe policies in place.
All children who visit gymnastics clubs have a right to feel and be safe. Clubs should be committed to promoting and maintaining a culture that does not permit or tolerate child abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The priority is to ensure the welfare and safety of every child that has contact with customers, team members, volunteers, and contractors.
RGA is committed to promoting the cultural safety of First Nations children, children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ children, children with disability, and their families.
RGA provides Clubs with the ability to:
• Empower children and young people – allowing them to participate and have a say on matters affecting them.
• Lead a child safety organisation – where every day thinking and decision making considers the safety of children and young people
• Make a public commitment to child safety – through websites, social media and a clear, accessible and child friendly Child Safety and Wellbeing policy
• Communicate a child safe code of conduct – widely and regularly
• Employee trusted and child safe adults – who are screened and care about children and young people
• Prioritise concerns reported – as a matter of urgency without judgement or blame
• Proactively identify risks – reducing or removing them from children and young people