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Mitigating Sexual Offences in ARC's and Child Safety

Wed 10 Apr 2019 14:00 — 16:00

Aqualink Nunawading, Fraser Place, Forest Hill Victoria 3131

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A large factor in our facilities in sexual predators and sexual offences around child safety. ARV will be bringing in a panel of SOCIT Police and Child Safety Officers to speak about how to protect children in these environments.

ARV have recently developed an online training module that will be available to all aquatic and recreation staff which will help train them in this area along with child safety. We aim to release this on the 10 April also in line with the SOCIT presentation.

Please see below questions the seminar will cover:

How to approach a suspect
What details to get
What activities to look out for
Who to contact
Governance around releasing member details if you suspect a patron of this behaviour
What we can do in swim programs to protect kids – ie. Teachers must supervise kids in change rooms for school groups
Child Safe Laws
How a child is being groomed
What if you don’t report it/ what if you do ?
Recognising a predator
Approach or not approach?
Sharing this information with neighbouring facilities?
Common examples/ case studies of what staff should look out for in this environment
When to call the police ?
What you can say/cant say to someone you suspect is at the facility for the wrong reason
Reasonable response – words to use with Emergency Services
How to encourage patrons to report to authority
Difference in reporting to authorities for incidents involving children or adults?
Following up crimes to see what the outcome is?
Education to patrons
What is the definition of a Sexual Offence? – what is the line?
Case Studies