Child Safety
Royal Life Saving has developed 2 modules here. The first is aimed at frontline staff, e.g. swim teachers and lifegaurds, the second builds on this content and is designed for management. The chief purpose of both modules is to assist the aquatic industry, and its workforce, to develop a clear understanding of the expectations, legal requirements and best practices related to ensuring children are safe from harm and abuse and that aquatic facilities/organisations create a positive, child-friendly culture and environment.
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The safety and wellbeing of children should sit at the heart of any organisation’s values.  However, this does not mean that development and implementation of child safe practices is always as good as it needs to be or that improvements can’t be made.  Further to this, ensuring children’s safety in an aquatic industry context can present a range of additional and specialised challenges.  This is why Royal Life Saving have developed two online child safety modules; one targeted at frontline workers and the other at management level staff.

The chief purpose of the modules is to assist the aquatic industry, and its workforce, to develop a clear understanding of the expectations, legal requirements and best practices relating to child safety.