activities or services where clubs and associations have a significant membership of, or involvement by, children coaching or tuition services for children commercial services for children, including entertainment or party services, gym or play facilities, photography services, and talent or beauty competitions services for children with disability education services for children health services for children justice and detention services for children, including immigration detention facilities transport services for children, including school crossing services. 6.10 State and territory governments should ensure Accept in principle that: The Queensland Government is an independent oversight body in committed to transparent and each state and territory is responsible accountable oversight and will engage for monitoring and enforcing the Child further with our existing oversight bodies, Safe Standards. Where appropriate, affected institutions and the community, this should be an existing body. including about the significant logistical the independent oversight body is and financial imposts and how these can able to delegate responsibility for best be managed. monitoring and enforcing the Child Safe Standards to another state or Whether the scope of the proposed territory government body, such as a body's function include regulation of sector regulator. enforcement of child safe standards will regulators take a responsive and be dependent on further consideration of based approach when monitoring 6.8 above. compliance with the Child Safe Standards and, where possible, utilise existing regulatory frameworks to monitor and enforce the Child Safe Standards. 6.11 Each independent state and territory oversight Accept in principle body should have the following additional The Queensland Government accepts functions: the importance of these proposed coordinate ongoing information functions and notes that the Queensland exchange between oversight bodies Family and Child Commission currently relating to compliance with provides systemic oversight for the child institutions’ the Child Safe Standards. and family support system and promotes provide advice and information on the and advocates for the safety and Child Safe Standards to institutions wellbeing of children and young people and the community; as well as the responsibilities of families collect, analyse and publish data on and communities to protect and care for the child safe approach in that children and young people. jurisdiction and provide that data to the proposed National Office for Child Safety; The Family and Child Commission Act 2014 provides for the Act to be reviewed
activities or services where clubs and associations have a significant membership of, or involvement by, children coaching or tuition services for children commercial services for children, including entertainment or party services, gym or play facilities, photography services, and talent or beauty competitions services for children with disability education services for children health services for children justice and detention services for children, including immigration detention facilities transport services for children, including school crossing services. 6.10 State and territory governments should ensure that: an independent oversight body in each state and territory is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the Child Safe Standards. Where appropriate, this should be an existing body. the independent oversight body is able to delegate responsibility for monitoring and enforcing the Child Safe Standards to another state or territory government body, such as a sector regulator. regulators take a responsive and approach when monitoring compliance with the Child Safe Standards and, where possible, utilise existing regulatory frameworks to monitor and enforce the Child Safe Standards. Accept in principle The Queensland Government is committed to transparent and accountable oversight and will engage further with our existing oversight bodies, affected institutions and the community, including about the significant logistical and financial imposts and how these can best be managed. Whether the scope of the proposed body's function include regulation of enforcement of child safe standards will be dependent on further consideration of 6.8 above. 6.11 Each independent state and territory oversight body should have the following additional functions: coordinate ongoing information exchange between oversight bodies relating to institutions’ compliance with the Child Safe Standards. provide advice and information on the Child Safe Standards to institutions and the community; collect, analyse and publish data on the child safe approach in that jurisdiction and provide that data to the proposed National Office for Child Safety; Accept in principle The Queensland Government accepts the importance of these proposed functions and notes that the Queensland Family and Child Commission currently provides systemic oversight for the child and family support system and promotes and advocates for the safety and wellbeing of children and young people as well as the responsibilities of families and communities to protect and care for children and young people. The Family and Child Commission Act 2014 provides for the Act to be reviewed based
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