Child Welfare – Code of Conduct

• Do respect the rights, dignity and worth of each and every person and treat them equally.
• Do provide an example you wish others to follow.
• Do plan activities, which involve more than one other person being present, or at least which are within sight or hearing of others.
• Do respect a child’s or young person’s right to personal privacy.
• Do provide access for young people to talk to others about any concerns they may have.
• Do encourage young people and adults to feel comfortable and caring enough to point out attitudes or behaviour they do not like.
• Do maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Do remember that someone else might mis-interpret your actions, no matter how well intentioned.
• Do recognise that caution is required even in sensitive moments of counselling, such as when dealing with bullying, bereavement or abuse.

• Do NOT permit abusive peer activities (e.g. initiation ceremonies, ridiculing or bullying).
• Do NOT have any inappropriate physical or verbal contact with others.
• Do NOT jump to conclusions about others without checking the facts.
• Do NOT allow yourself to be drawn into inappropriate attention seeking behaviour such as tantrums or crushes.
• Do NOT exaggerate or trivialise child abuse issues.
• Do NOT show favouritism to any individual.
• Do NOT make suggestive remarks or gestures.
• Do NOT rely on just your good name to protect you.
• Do NOT believe “it could never happen to me”.