Creating Child Safe Swim Schools
Course Benefits
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognise safeguarding risks in everyday aquatic environments
- Make more confident child-safe decisions in practical situations
- Respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns
- Apply safer practices across physical and online aquatic environments
- Better support children and families to participate and be heard
- Identify safeguarding strengths and potential gaps in your aquatic environment
- Take practical action to strengthen child safe practice
- Contribute to ongoing review and continuous improvement in child safety
You will receive a Certificate of Completion following successful completion of the PD.
Course Overview
Creating a child-safe aquatic environment takes more than awareness. It requires clear systems, confident people and child-safe practices that are understood and applied every day.
Creating Child Safe Swim Schools is practical online professional development designed specifically for swim schools, aquatic centres and pool environments.
Developed by AUSTSWIM Lead Safeguarding Advisor Phil Doorgachurn, the course explores the Child Safe Standards and shows how they can be applied across leadership, staff practice, complaints, recruitment, physical and online environments, policies and everyday operations.
Why this matters:
Across most Australian states and territories, Child Safe Standards are mandatory and fully enforceable. Aquatic environments also present particular safeguarding considerations, from change rooms and physical instruction to one-on-one lessons, photography and online communication.
This course takes the Standards into that aquatic context, helping participants move from understanding what child safe practice requires to applying it in everyday situations.
This course is ideal for:
- Swim teachers
- Swim school owners and operators
- Aquatic centre managers and supervisors
- Child Safe Officers and safeguarding leads
- Staff responsible for:
- Recruitment
- Induction
- Complaints
- Policy
- Risk management
Course Details
Delivery and completion
- This course is delivered online and can be completed at your own pace.
- Completion contributes to 3 hours of professional development and can be used towards your licence renewal.
What you will learn
- Why the Child Safe Standards matter.
- What the ten Standards mean for aquatic organisations.
- How they can be applied across:
- Leadership and culture
- Children and families
- Safer recruitment
- Professional boundaries
- Complaints and reporting
- Physical and online environments
- Policy, review and continuous improvement
- The final module uses realistic aquatic scenarios involving:
- Change rooms
- One-on-one instruction
- A child speaking up
- Photography and social media
- Cultural safety
- Recruitment and induction
- You will finish by identifying a safeguarding strength, a potential gap and a practical action for your own aquatic environment.
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