What to expect?
What to Expect
What is a Child Safety Decision-Making Model?
Child Safety Decision Making Model
Why are there 4 different types of assessments?
What is an assessment?
What are the steps of an assessment?
How can you implement assessment outcomes?
Implementing assessment outcomes
How do you close, appeal and review responses?
Closing a response
Appealing a Response
Reviewing a Response
Do you work for an organisation?
What are governance issues?
Do we care about people?
Do we really care about people?
Do we care about you?
Do we really care about you?
What are the principles behind response strategies?
Principles behind the Response Process
Do you want to keep learning?
Further education options

Purpose of an Initial Assessment

The purpose of an initial assessment is to determine initial responses of a Child Safety Concern.

The organisation receiving the Child Safety Concern must make the 3 primary decisions at this point:

  1. Does the information received in the concern constitutes a Child Safety Concern for the organisation?
  2. Does the organisation need to respond immediately for the safety of personnel and children? Including contacting Law enforcement, or Children Services.
  3. Does the organisation require a more comprehensive assessments in order to determine appropriate responses.