Standards

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• National Catholic Safeguarding Standards (NCSS) (C'th) - NoneThe NCSS outline the policies and activities that will prevent, respond to, and support reporting of concerns regarding abuse. The Standards work together to ensure that every entity, ministry and organisation across the Catholic Church places the safety of children and adults at risk at the core of how they plan, think and act.
  
  The 10 National Catholic Safeguarding Standards incorporate recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and also the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, contextualising these requirements for the Catholic Church in Australia. The Standards have been adopted by the Catholic Church in Australia.
  
  The first phase in developing the Standards focused on safeguarding practices to protect children. The second phase incorporates care and protection of adults, with a focus on adults at risk, in keeping with the recommendations of the Royal Commission. The second edition of the NCSS has now been published.
• National Disability Insurance Scheme Practice Standards (C'th) - NoneThe NDIS Practice Standards specify the quality standards to be met by registered NDIS providers to provide supports and services to NDIS participants. Together with the NDIS Code of Conduct, the NDIS Practice Standards build NDIS participants’ awareness of what quality service provision they should expect from registered NDIS providers.
• National Employment Standards (NES) (NSW) - NoneThe National Employment Standards (NES) are the minimum employment entitlements that have to be provided to all employees.
• National Principles for Child Safe Organisations (2019) (C'th) - NoneThe National Principles for Child Safe Organisations have been endorsed by members of the Council of Australian Governments, including the Prime Minister and state and territory First Ministers. The principles aim to provide a nationally consistent approach to creating organisational cultures that foster child safety and wellbeing. The National Principles reflect ten child safe standards recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and are the vehicle for giving effect to recommendations relating to the standards. The National Principles have a broader scope that goes beyond child sexual abuse to cover other forms of potential harm to children and young people.
• National Quality Standard - Early Childhood Education and Out of School Care (C'th) - NoneThe National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a high national benchmark for early childhood education and care and outside school hours care services in Australia.
  The NQS includes 7 quality areas that are important to outcomes for children.
• NSW Child Safe Standards (NSW) - NoneThe Child Safe Standards provide a framework for creating child safe organisations. They are designed to drive cultural change to create, maintain and improve child safe practices. When organisations apply the Standards they build a culture where abuse of children is prevented, responded to and reported.
• NSW Child Safe Standards for Permanent Care (NSW) - NoneA guide to the 23 standards that establish the minimum requirements for the accreditation of out-of-home care and adoption service providers.