Auditing & Gap Analysis
Audit services to measure current compliance and build a roadmap of priorities or safer environments.
Safety audits seek to support your organisation’s overall purpose by identifying opportunities for improvement.
Our safety audits are independent exercises built on audit industry standards of practice:
Impact oriented – audit work is focused on an established risk culture model that predicts outcomes and identifies root causes, providing the necessary foundation for action to drive genuine improvement.
Sustainable – the process must be managed with integrity, be cognisant of risks (to all parties), and ensure conclusions are reliable.
Evidence based – all conclusions must be underpinned by reliable, relevant and useful information including qualitative and quantitative data sources.
Objective – the methodology should employ techniques that minimise bias, both conscious and unconscious.
Insightful – conclusions should seek to highlight and provide evidence on issues that have been difficult to see, understand or act on in the past.
Derived from, Auditing Risk Culture: A practical guide, IIAA, p15, 2021
For further information about our ChildSafe Audit Service, please download the brochure or submit an enquiry below.
“Effective prevention is predicated on creating a positive, open, and inclusive organisational culture in which the safety of children is paramount. This culture should be led by senior management and wholeheartedly endorsed and owned by staff at all levels.”
Risk profiles for institutional child sexual abuse: A literature review. Professor Keith Kaufman and Marcus Erooga , p11, 2016
Desktop audit
A desktop audit can be the first step to a stronger site implementation audit.
- The audit is conducted remotely
- Your organisation’s document, policies, procedures will be checked against the 10 National Principles
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Your organisation will receive a comprehensive ChildSafe audit report generally including:
- Executive summary
- Summary of findings
- Recommendations arising from audit
- Detailed assessment tables as a detailed multi-indicator assessment against each of the criteria in the ChildSafe Standards
- Outline of method and scope of the report
- Assessment criteria and limitations
- Summary of documented child safety management data
”The desktop audit provided by ChildSafe helped frame our continuous improvement in the context of the 2017 Royal Commission Report and Standards. It provided additional clarity around organisational compliance and best practice industry standards.
Kids Hope Australia
Implementation audit
The site audit is a stronger audit making it possible to validate and analyse both documented and onsite implementation compliance indicators and the opportunity to discuss issues and practice with the practitioners of child safety.
A member of the audit team will visit the designated site/s of the organisation to talk to the leaders, safety coordinators, and children (with permission), about the implementation of child safety. As well as gaining information about how the organisation does things, the visit provides valuable insight into how people in the organisation think about the safety and care of children.
A ChildSafe audit report will generally include the following:
- An executive summary
- Summary of findings
- Recommendations arising from audit observations, for your organisation to improve implementation in the identified area
- Summary of interviews
- Detailed assessment tables as a detailed multi-indicator assessment against each of the criteria in the Child Safe Standards
- Outline of method and scope of the report
- Assessment criteria and limitations
- Summary of documented child safety management data
”We were very pleased with the audit of our approach to child safety management. We found the report to be very comprehensive and extremely accurate. It has provided us with a good way forward, and more importantly, with the opportunity to improve our approach and support us in providing a safe environment for all children.
