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Community Languages Victoria presents
Safe to Learn,
Safe to Belong
2026 Child Safety Summit
Creating a Child Safe Culture Together |
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Registrations now open |
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Hi ,
Does every child in your community language school feel safe, heard and able to speak up? Would every adult know what to do if a concern were raised?
Registrations are now open for Safe to Learn, Safe to Belong, a practical half-day summit for community language school leaders, teachers, volunteers and Child Safety Officers.
This interactive summit moves beyond policy and compliance to explore how the Victorian Child Safe Standards can be embedded into everyday governance, leadership, teaching and volunteer practice.
You will leave with practical tools, resources and strategies that you can begin using from your very next session.
Because policies protect children only when people put them into practice. |
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Sunday 20 September 2026
10:00am–1:00pm AEST |
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Learning and Teaching Building—Building 92
19 Ancora Imparo Way
Monash University Clayton Campus
Clayton VIC 3800
Or join us online |
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Face-to-face: $20
Online: $15 |
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Spaces are limited. Secure your place early. |
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What you will gain
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Build a shared, practical understanding of the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards and how they connect. |
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Clarify the responsibilities of school leaders, teachers, volunteers and Child Safety Officers. |
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Increase your confidence in recognising concerns, responding appropriately and following your school's established reporting and escalation procedures. |
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Strengthen child voice, cultural safety, family involvement, equity, inclusion and online safety in community school practice. |
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Leave with one immediate priority action and a practical take-home resource relevant to your role. |
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Program
| 10:00am–10:15am |
| Opening and Acknowledgement of Country |
| 10:15am–11:00am |
Keynote presentation
Embedding Child Safety Standards into Everyday Practice
Presented by Belinda Grooby (CLV's Child Safety & Compliance Manager) |
| 11:00am–11:30am |
| Morning tea and networking |
| 11:30am–1:00pm |
| Concurrent workshops, choose one workshop when registering |
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Workshops
Participants will select one of three focused workshops.
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School-Focused Workshop
For principals, coordinators, administrators, committee members and board members.
Explore how leadership, governance, culture, volunteer systems and shared accountability work together to create a child-safe organisation. |
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Teacher-Focused Workshop
For paid and volunteer teachers, classroom assistants and others working directly with children.
Explore child voice, professional boundaries, recognising concerns, responding appropriately and building safer everyday learning environments. |
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Child Safety Officer-Focused Workshop
For Child Safety Officers, child safety leads and designated contacts.
Strengthen role clarity and explore practical approaches to receiving concerns, guiding staff, documenting information, escalating appropriately and supporting consistent school-wide responses. |
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Choose one workshop when you register
The three workshops run concurrently from 11:30am to 1:00pm, so each participant selects one workshop when registering. There is a separate ticket for each workshop, face-to-face and online.
You will not miss the other two. The Opening, Keynote Presentation and presenter-led content from all three workshop streams will be recorded. Everyone who purchases a ticket will receive access to the recordings by email after the summit. |
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What's included
| Face-to-face tickets include |
The whole-group opening and keynote presentation
Participation in one selected workshop
Morning tea
Networking with community language school educators and leaders |
| Online tickets include |
| Access to the Opening and Keynote presentation and one selected workshop, livestreamed via Zoom |
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Send more than one person
Child safety belongs to the whole organisation, not only the Child Safety Officer. Send a principal, a teacher and your Child Safety Officer, book one ticket to each workshop, and your school covers all three streams live. Every participant who attends, face-to-face or online, receives a digital Certificate of Attendance by email after the event, so please register each person under their own full name and email address. |
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Child safe event statement
Community Languages Victoria is committed to child safety and to upholding the Victorian Child Safe Standards.
Sessions at this summit will include discussion of child safety concerns, disclosures and response processes. Some content may feel sensitive. Participants may step out of a session at any time and speak with a CLV staff member if assistance is needed.
This summit provides general professional learning and does not replace your school's policies, reporting procedures or legal obligations.
Accessibility. Please tell us about any accessibility or participation requirements during registration, or use the Contact host button on the event page as early as possible.
Dietary requirements. Please provide these during registration. Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate them, though an allergen-free environment cannot be guaranteed.
Refunds. Full refunds are available for cancellations made before the event. To request one, use the Contact host button on the event page or in your order confirmation email. |
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Questions about tickets, refunds or changing your workshop? Use the Contact host button on the event page, which reaches us fastest.
For anything else about the summit, please get in touch with me directly. |
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Community Languages Victoria Inc.
Level 2, 189 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053 • info@communitylanguages.org.au • communitylanguages.org.au
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