Neil has worked in not for profits for over 20 years, including churches and A large NGO and has been on many local community grassroots committees. He has a passion to help organisations across our nation make sure that children are safe. Out of his role with ChildSafe he volunteers in a local sporting club, enjoys fitness and family time.
Pranothi has worked for over 15 years in Education, Not for Profit, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain sectors, in the Human Resources and Training and Development function. Her previous experience in Human Resources as well as various sectors such as has helped her to understand people, processes, and priorities. In her role as Product Manager, Pranothi helps solving business and customer problems and creating products and create solutions that are viable, timely and add value to the product. She is passionate about keeping children safe and loves to spend her time reading, volunteering and learning new technologies.
Mal has over 25 years of experience empowering businesses by providing solutions to challenges they face. Having grown up around and volunteered in camping and children’s ministry, Mal has experienced the practical challenges of implementation at a grassroots level. Mal is passionate about helping organisations, clubs, and churches on their journey of safety for children and vulnerable people.
While at ChildSafe, Mal is working with thousands of organisations to discover how to apply Child Safety in their context. He is passionate about keeping children and young people safe and empowering organisations to undertake this important task.
Joel has worked with young people in a range of contexts for over 15 years. Having been a leader across a variety of sectors, including churches, camps, leadership development, and overseeing teams to deliver workshops within schools, he has a depth of understanding of the myriad of challenges young people face and the practicalities of creating safe cultures for them. He is passionate about healthy leadership and equipping organisations to work with young people in transformative and safe ways.
Organisations she has worked with to deliver on their Child Safety objectives include CFA Victoria, Belgravia Leisure, Elevate Education, Melaleuca Australia, The Embrace Collective, Kids Under Cover and the NSW Inspector General of Custodial Services. Kathryn is also part of The NSW Guardian Children’s Resources Working Group and Community of Practice for faith-based organisations and was involved in gathering materials and writing submissions for the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse and Annual Reporting to the National Office of Child Safety.
Jeanie is a qualified safeguarding specialist and expert witness with over 15 years of experience in child protection, safeguarding, institutional risk management, and workplace safety, both in Australia and internationally. Jeanie is also a specialist investigator and interviewer and holds postgraduate qualifications in Developmental Trauma Theory.
Jeanie’s mission is to protect vulnerable people, including children and young people, and enhance the understanding of the legal, ethical and moral obligations we all share in creating safe spaces for all people, especially children and young people. Jeanie has applied her expertise and credentials in developmental trauma, criminology, and governance risk and compliance to support clients, provide expert opinion and act as an advisor to boards and executives in specialist areas such as Safeguarding Risk and Compliance.
Linda is a seasoned trainer, counsellor, and consultant with 25 years of experience. She uses a strengths-based approach, creating tools and assessments for individuals and teams, especially in workplaces and education.
Her background includes executive leadership, management, and social work, focusing on people, culture, wellness, mental health, personal change, and organizational strategy. Linda has worked in various sectors, including non-profits, government, education, and corporate, as a practitioner, leader, trainer, and consultant. She is a respected speaker and workshop facilitator.
Linda specializes in mental health, change management, communications, culture, HR, wellness, trauma, working with vulnerable people, and adventure-based therapies. She is warm, engaging, and adaptable, committed to lifelong learning and a growth mindset.
Ann Morison brings her 30 years’ experience as a Trainer to Child Safe Australia. She has delivered all the Child Safe Australia programs in her 2-years with the organisation so far. Her training sessions are successful due to her ability to be engaging and interactive as well as making it relevant and applicable to the audience. Ultimately her most valuable contribution towards child safe training is because she is a victim survivor of child sexual abuse, experiencing all types of abuse. Her passion is to see zero tolerance of child abuse and is pouring that into helping all organizations do whatever they can to prevent it.
Daniel is a passionate youth advocate and educator. He champions boys across Australia to challenge culture and aspire to live courageous, respectful and empathetic lives.
Daniel is a board member of the DART Institute, an ambassador for the Women’s Resilience Centre and an ambassador for the national campaign Consent Can’t Wait.
Having presented to tens of thousands of young people in every Australian state and territory, Daniel is no stranger to the complex challenges that our distracted digital world presents in adolescence. By partnering with schools and communities, Daniel encourages young people to recognise and resist distorted attitudes towards bodies, relationships and sex. He invites his audiences to instead aspire to healthy relationships built on mutual respect and empathy.
Daniel is a regular guest on TV, radio and podcasts to discuss healthy masculinity, consent, respectful relationships and the cultural challenges young people are facing. None of these evolving challenges sway Daniel’s confidence that all young people can flourish if we create spaces for them to be their best selves.
Anna possesses over two decades of extensive teaching and training expertise inthe UK and Australia, predominantly within the not-for-profit sector for the past 15years. Her leadership roles include managing a training organisation across four campuses, focusing on students from disabled and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Anna has successfully overseen a trauma-informed education school unit tailored for at-risk youth, aimed at reengagement into education.
Anna is passionate about educating individuals on child safety to mitigate potential harm in the future.
Audits are overseen and/or carried out by Jeff Mason. Jeff has studied research into safety management to identify best practices and legislative requirements in every state of Australia.
Jeff has applied his skills and experience to develop an effective audit process that is enabling organisations already strongly committed to child safety and care to improve further.
Members of the ChildSafe audit team are trained by Jeff Mason.
Jeff served as Chair of the ChildSafe Board for eight years and was employed by Scripture Union as Safety Management Officer. His previous 33 years were spent in education including 10 years as Principal of Narrabundah College and leadership roles in the Accrediting Agency and Assessment and Reporting. Jeff rose to the position of Director of School Programs before moving to Scripture Union. As Director of School Programs, he represented the ACT on four of COAGS national education policy groups.
Ruth’s broad-ranging educational and professional background allows her to understand how organisations work and how they work with children and young people.
Ruth has been a teacher, worked with children in higher-risk outdoor education settings, and coached children and adults in a variety of sports. For twelve years she was CEO of a state-wide not-for-profit organisation that focused on work with children and families. During this time, she worked hard to continuously improve the safety and care of children and young people for whom the organisation had a duty of care.
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