Best practice for parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention education in early childhood
Commissioned research
Supporting continuous quality improvement in safeguarding at Hockey Australia and other national sporting organisations
- Prevention
- Safeguarding
- Workforce
Project Length
24 months
Project Budget
$34,898
Funding Stream
Quality Improvement
Project Lead
- Jarrod Dowdy, Hockey Australia
Project Team
- Douglas Russell, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
- Samantha Dellamarta, Hockey Australia
Background and Aim
In 2021, Hockey Australia developed a “Safe Hockey” Framework to address the sport’s response to children’s and young people’s safety and wellbeing, including the ongoing threat of sexual abuse and other types of harm.
Hockey Australia will use the Children’s Safety and Safeguarding Capabilities Surveys, developed by the Institute of Child Protection Studies, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Framework by measuring children and young people’s perception of safety in hockey, and how capable Australian Hockey Organisation staff and volunteers feel about their role in safeguarding children and young people in hockey (read about the surveys here).
Methods
Hockey Australia will deploy surveys to participants across its pathways and representative levels of hockey. Participants will be engaged using a facilitated and supported face-to-face approach, ensuring they are informed and understand the purpose of the survey. The surveys use established quantitative research methods to collect and analyse the empirical evidence gathered.
Significance
Results will be used to identify and inform Hockey Australia’s continuous improvement efforts and how the surveys and tools may be deployed nationally to evaluate the child safety and safeguarding frameworks and efforts of other national sporting organisations.
Latest research outcomes
Webinar: Safeguarding children and young people in sport: The state of play
Explores current safeguarding challenges, opportunities and emerging evidence in Australian sport
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Infographic: Safeguarding children and young people in sport
A visual summary of key findings and recommendations for strengthening safeguarding in sporting organisations
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