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Diocesan Safeguarding Framework Policy

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Legislation
  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
  Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012
  Children (Education and Care Services National Law Application) Act 2010 (NSW)
  Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998
  Children's Guardian Act 2019
  Code of Canon Law (1987)
  Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities (2006)
  Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
  Crimes Act 1900
  Criminal Code Act 1995
  Disability Discrimination Act 1992
  Education and Care Services National Regulations (2011)
  Family Law Act 1975
  Modern Slavery Act 2018
  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
  Principles for Older Persons
  Privacy Act 1988
  Revisions of the Code of Canon Law, Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Standards
  National Catholic Safeguarding Standards (NCSS)
  National Principles for Child Safe Organisations (2019)
Codes
  Integrity in Ministry
Website Links
  Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, 29 April 2022 (p. 3)
  Apostolic Letter to the People of God "If one member suffers..."
  Australian Catholic Safeguarding website
  Australian Children’s Commissioners and Guardians
  Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle Office of Safeguarding Reporting abuse of vulnerable persons
  Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle Office of Safeguarding Reporting Child Abuse
  Code of Cannon Law. 494 §1
  Code of Cannon Law. 794 §1
  Decree 06/2019 of the Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle establishing the Ecclesiastical Office of Director of Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults (24 May 2019)
  Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - SharePoint Page
  eSafety Commissioner
  Indicators of abuse & neglect of vulnerable persons
  Indicators of abuse and neglect of children
  Mandatory Report Guide
  National Response Protocol
  National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse [2021â€"2030]
  Normae de Gravioribus Delictis (2010 revisions)
  NSW Child Safe Standards
  NSW Department of Early Childhood Education
  Office of the Children's Guardian Child Safe Handbooks
  Office of the Children's Guardian: Guide to the Child Safe Standards (2020)
  The Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017)
  Think U Know
  Vademecum on certain points of procedure in treating cases of sexual abuse of minors committed by clerics
  Vos Estis Lux Mundi (Revision 27 March 2023)
  What constitutes child abuse and how to report it
  Working with Children Check (WWCC)