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On 2 September 2025, Body Safety Australia, in partnership with Communities at Work, hosted a powerful workshop in Canberra ahead of National Child Protection Week. The event brought together parents, carers, educators, MPs and media to strengthen our shared responsibility in preventing child sexual abuse.

Speakers included Deanne Carson (Body Safety Australia), Georgie Dent (The Parenthood), and Dr Red Ruby Scarlet. Attendees gained practical tools to identify grooming behaviours, challenge myths, and support children’s rights and safety.

As CEO Deanne Carson shared: “Child safety begins when adults have the knowledge, confidence and support to create safe environments.”

You can view the official media release through the button below.

Body Safety Australia is coming to Canberra ahead of Child Protection Week and you are invited!

Tuesday 2nd September
10:00AM – 12:PM
In-person session and online
Communities at Work’s Abacus Child Care and Education Centre
Treasury Building, Parkes Place West, Parkes ACT 2600, PARKES ACT, 2600

In partnership with Communities at Work, we invite parents, carers, sector leaders, and Members of Parliament to come together to write safer stories for children.

As a leading provider of primary prevention, education, and professional development, Body Safety Australia is committed to stopping childhood sexual abuse before it occurs, both in person and online. We engage the whole community to build safer environments for children.

You are invited to take part in our Community Parent Carer Workshop, a practical and empowering session that equips parents, carers, and the entire support network around children with the knowledge and skills needed to prevent childhood sexual abuse.

The workshop includes:

– Childhood sexual abuse: the risk and myths
– Identifying grooming behaviours
– Online safety and image autonomy
– Ten things to teach your child
– Becoming champions for children

Click the link below to register!

Body Safety Australia is committed to a whole of community approach to preventing childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and to support children in enjoying healthy, respectful relationships now and in the future.

This means empowering and working with not just children, but the adults in their village: from parents and carers to wider families, to friends, to community members. Since 2015 we have facilitated workshops to parents and carers through centres, schools, and councils accessing our SuperStars program. We’re excited to announce that in 2025 we will be expanding these workshops to anyone who would like to attend.

If you, or someone you love, would like to learn tangible strategies to help prevent CSA in your communities, this two-hour practical workshop empowers families with safety tools that can be used within the home, school and community. Following a storytelling approach, we will cover the key statistics regarding CSA, common patterns of grooming and abuse, preventative strategies for you and the children in your village, and information about responding to disclosures. You will leave the workshop better equipped to protect and empower the children in your village through a range of printable interactive and creative activities.

This week’s announcement of a large-scale investigation into alleged child sexual abuse across multiple Victorian childcare centres has left many in the sector feeling shocked and needing support. Our thoughts are with all the affected children, their families, educators and communities.

At Body Safety Australia we are dedicated to protecting every child in the country from sexual violence by partnering with the adults who care for them.

We will be hosting a free online forum for educators and sector leaders next Wednesday 09/07/2025 between 7pm & 8:30pm EST.

You are invited to attend an In Conversation With panel featuring guest speaker Professor Daryl Higgins, Justeen Fitzgibbon and Lisa Bryant and will be facilitated by our CEO, Deanne Carson. This session will cover:

– Child sexual abuse
– Responding to families concerns
– Identify grooming and intercepting grooming
– Digital technology as a tool for abuse
– Reportable Conduct Scheme

We look forward to seeing you there!

We are anticipating a high level of interest, so please RSVP via the link below as early as possible.

Body Safety Australia is expanding and bringing our child safety programs to South Australia, and we are looking to partner with like-minded organisations.

Body Safety Australia is the country’s leading organisation committed to creating childhoods free from violence. We educate and empower children, families and educators in abuse prevention and respectful relationships. We have been featured on Insight, The Role of a Lifetime and Asking for It and are a trusted eSafety Provider. Our programs have created lasting cultural change in communities across Victoria and we want to partner with you to bring those programs to South Australia.

We have a proven track record across Victoria, including with schools such as Xavier College and St Phillip’s Primary, and are excited to now bring our programs to South Australia. We know that your school takes child safeguarding seriously and we can help you implement the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations in a way that empowers your unique community.

We are hosting a soft launch event. Scan the QR code or click the button below to find out more information.

Lauren spent a week in country at Borroloola Indi Kindis for a session all about emotions, feelings and safety. The children enjoyed learning through a range of fun sensory activities, drawing, reading stories and playing music.

This session is part of Indi Kindi’s partnership with Body Safety Australia to support primary prevention education in remote communities.

We are so proud of our partnership with the Moriarty Foundation in supporting and learning from the children at Indi Kindi in Borroloola, NT.

Donate today and help Moriarty Foundation deliver groundbreaking early childhood solution to give Indigenous children the best start in life > https://bit.ly/3wxfgxm

It was a privilege to be able to talk at the Child and Adolescence Mental Health Conference this week on how digital technology is being used in the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. This is a pressing concern as predators use of new technologies outstrips our capacity to regulate and educate about risk.

The uncritical use of tech is creating a distorted appropriateness of behaviour in children and teens that creates incredible vulnerabilities to harmful behaviour.

It seems that again, across so many professions, we are either wholehearted and uncritical proponents for tech or wowsers who want to strip tech from children’s lives and return to some imagined childhood of the past. It was great to see so many speakers joining me to move past that conversation to interrogate risk factors as we create targeted and informed responses.

What stops someone from speaking up when something doesn’t feel right?

In April 2025, Lauren ran See it, Say it. A professional development training designed for early childhood educators who might one day face the hardest kind of professional moment: seeing something in a colleague’s behaviour that doesn’t sit right, and having to decide what to do next.

We asked participants to reflect on why people don’t always act.

Here’s what came up:
– 47% said they didn’t feel confident, trained, or supported
– 34% said fear of the consequences
– Only 5% felt certain they’d always speak up

That’s the reality. And that’s why this work matters.

Because child safety isn’t just about knowing the rules. It’s about feeling ready to act when it counts. And that kind of readiness takes time, trust, and community.

After ten years of implementing child safe standards, we’ve learned that effective reporting cultures are built on collective responsibility. The most child-safe organisations aren’t those with perfect policies. They’re the ones where staff at all levels feel equipped to have courageous conversations about children’s wellbeing.

Is your team ready to have these conversations? Contact us about bringing See it, Say it to your organisation: info@bodysafetyaustralia.com.au

Body Safety Australia pays witness to the grief of Palestinian people and the horror continuing to unfold in Gaza.

Our mission is to promote childhoods free from violence, where children enjoy equitable and respectful relationships. Our work challenges the systemic power imbalances that allow for the use of power to harm others. We now call on Israel and zionists to reflect on how the oppressed can become the oppressor when power structures and systems are leveraged for gain at the expense of others.

We seek to listen to the voices of children and young peope – those in classrooms, at rallies, on social media and who have been compelled to organise and participate in student walk-outs. They are calling for an end to violence and a commitment to peace.

We are an organisation that stands firmly and proudly with First Nations peoples, promotes disability justice and advocates against sexual violence and coercive control. We centre the voices of young people in the work that we do. Our Youth Advisory Committee has recently established our Ethos of Advocacy: “none of us are free until all of us are free”. We recognise that all forms of oppression are intertwined. To stand for social justice then is to fight for Palestinian freedom.

We uphold this statement of freedom and will continue to listen to and advocate for the voices of children and young people everywhere.