Webinar: Keeping Our Participants and Our People Safe
Enhancing Child Safety in Recreation and Leisure Services
Join us for an essential and interactive webinar focused on enhancing child safety in recreation and leisure settings. Whether you manage facilities, lead teams, or deliver frontline services, this session will support you to create safer spaces for children, young people – and your staff under the age of 18.
We’ll revisit the Ten Child Safe Principles/Standards, reflect on progress, and explore practical strategies for continuous improvement across your organisation.
What You’ll Learn
- A refreshed understanding of the Child Safe Standards and your legal and organisational responsibilities
- Tools to assess your progress and identify areas for improvement
- Strategies to ensure standards are clearly understood and implemented across your teams
- Guidance on reporting requirements, including how these apply to both participants and employees under 18
Why Attend?
- Champion child safety in your workplace and community.
- Learn how to embed a culture of safeguarding within your organisation.
- Minimise risk and improve practices related to the safety of children and young staff.
- Stay informed and compliant with the latest safeguarding expectations.
Presenters
Olivia Brown – Safeguarding Training Australia
Lisa Giacomelli – Lisa Giacomelli Consulting
Olivia and Lisa bring extensive experience in both recreation and leisure management and child safeguarding. Their expertise ensures a session that is both practical and tailored to the unique needs of our sector.
Lisa has worked in the human services sector for 30 years, designing, delivering and leading services and organisations that provide services to children, young people, their families and communities. Lisa had led service delivery for children and young people in a range of environments including recreation and aquatics in local government and the not-for-profit sector. She has worked at all levels of child facing agencies, from grass roots service delivery to C-Suite and Board roles.
Lisa is deeply experienced in safeguarding, from leading organisational responses to incidents to embedding a safeguarding culture and framework across organisations. Having led operations in multi-site and complex agencies in highly regulated environments, Lisa understands the complexity involved in providing child safe, high quality, sustainable services. She appreciates the demands of operational environments and provides safeguarding support that is practical and achievable whilst remaining staunchly child focussed. During her career she was proud to achieve this across community, leisure, recreation and aquatic facilities and services in local government and the not-for-profit sector.
Lisa was a key leader in successfully rebuilding child safety frameworks, systems, processes and culture in an organisation highlighted in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and has undertaken several speaking engagements both locally and abroad on this experience and how other organisations may use learning from this to build safe environments for children.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Social Science (Youth Work)
- Bachelor of Laws
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Company Director’s Course
- Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Olivia is an accomplished consultant, specialising in safeguarding and child safety practice, education, governance, and strategy. She has vast experience working with governors and executive leadership, demonstrating expertise in good governance standards, organisational frameworks, quality and compliance, and navigating reform in complex organisational structures.
Olivia has experience in organisations of all size – local, state-based, national and international entities across various sectors including education, sport and recreation, disability, out-of-home-care, health, tourism and arts, early education, humanitarian, government and social media.
Having led quality and practice roles in child safeguarding for the last 10 years, she established Safeguarding Training Australia in 2023, where she, along with trusted consultants from around the country provide sector training and education, sharing practical and invaluable insights. Recognising the importance of evidence-based research, Olivia has initiated the development of leading ‘Communities of Practice’ platforms, providing organisations with access to contemporary resources.
Furthermore, Olivia’s advisory services have proven instrumental in guiding leadership teams, fostering organisational culture change, high quality practice and ensuring compliance with National Principles and State-based legislation. She is passionate about developing an ethically driven organisational culture and sound decision-making processes.
Qualifications and Certifications
- Adv. Diploma – Management
- Adv. Diploma – Human Resources
- Certificate in Governance (GIA)
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Cert III in Disability
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is ideal for:
- Recreation and leisure professionals
- Facility and centre managers
- People and Culture / HR teams
- Local government staff
- Anyone working with or employing staff under 18
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance safety across your services.