Risk Management Strategy

The Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 (Qld) (“The Act”) requires that Queensland Baptists develop and implement a Child Protection Risk Management Strategy (“The / This Strategy”) for Blue Card requirements. The purpose of the Strategy is to promote the well being of children and young people who come into contact with Queensland Baptists (“QB”) and to protect them from harm.

Queensland Baptists Risk Management Strategy incorporates the following elements:

• A commitment to a child safe culture which is made explicitly through Queensland Baptists Child Protection Strategy;
• Procedures for receiving and reporting disclosures of harm;
• Procedures for the identification, evaluation, control and review of risks; and
• Procedures for the screening and selection of staff.

This Strategy does not replace existing Child Protection documentation (such as Safe Places) currently in use in Queensland Baptist Churches. The Strategy supplements existing policies and procedures. However, facility specific documentation should be consistent with this document and, to the extent of any inconsistency, this Strategy shall prevail.

Responsibility for implementing this Strategy rests with the church leadership.

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Gympie Baptist Church provides a safe place in order to care for children and young people in ways that respect their dignity and value as unique individuals.

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