Key information
- All other DECYP workers who engage with children and young people and are over 18 must complete the Your Obligations – Safeguarding Training 15-minute video each calendar year. This includes:
- Volunteers
- Trainers and presenters
- Students on work placement or experience
- Contractors or sub-contractors
- External service providers
- Certificates are valid for 12 months from the date of completion.
Access the training
Exceptions
The following exception information is provided as guidance only. Managers are to use their discretion as to whether non-DECYP workers accessing their sites need to complete training. Managers must also put risk mitigation strategies in place. This might include strategies like full supervision by a DECYP employee.
Parents and caregivers
Parents and caregivers do not need to complete the training if you are:
- attending the DECYP site with your own children
- participating in DECYP events where you are only supporting your own children.
You must complete the training if you are volunteering or working with children other than your own.
Visiting external organisations
If DECYP children and young people are visiting an external organisation, including sporting venues, external site staff and external bus drivers supporting associated travel do not need to complete DECYP Safeguarding training.
Instead, DECYP workers arranging the visit must follow the requirements of DECYP’s relevant policies and procedures. This includes undertaking risk assessments and ensuring all adults are fully supervised by DECYP workers who have undertaken their Safeguarding training.
All DECYP workers and volunteers helping with excursions and similar events must complete the training.
Visitors attending DECYP sites (including Emergency Services)
Visitors attending a DECYP site who will only have incidental contact* with children and young people may not need to complete Safeguarding training. For example, if the site manager determines it has adequate risk mitigation strategies in place. This might include full supervision by DECYP workers. Site managers have discretion to make this decision.
Emergency service workers attending DECYP sites to respond to an emergency do not need to complete Safeguarding training. They also do not need to be fully supervised while on site.
*Incidental contact means when a person works at the same place of work as a child or young person but does not provide services to them. An example of incidental contact is a guest speaker presenting in front of a school and then leaving. More than incidental contact would be if the guest speaker then joins the students in small groups for discussions
Training support
Technical support
If you are having issues accessing the training, a ‘Troubleshooting guide’ is available:
Access support
Talk to your DECYP contact officer if you need support to complete your Safeguarding training. Support might include access to a device or to the internet.
For further advice, email safeguardingtraining@decyp.tas.gov.au.
Exemptions
To seek an exemption, you or your DECYP contact officer must contact the Office of Safeguarding Children and Young People on safeguardingtraining@decyp.tas.gov.au. The Office will also help you or your DECYP contact officer work out how to best receive the key messages in a way that supports your wellbeing.