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• Who we are
• How We Work
  • Our strategic plan
  • Guarantee of service
  • Complaints
• Working with us
• How to find us

Our legislation, the Commission for Children and Young People Act 1998, sets out our responsibilities and our main functions. In summary, it says that:

• children’s safety, welfare and well-being is our top priority
• children and young people’s views are to be taken seriously
• healthy relationships between children, families and communities are important for the well-being of children
• it is important that organisations work together for the safety, welfare and well-being of children.

We do this through:

• Projects
• Inquiries
• Training and seminars
• Community education
• Research
• Providing information and advice
• The Working With Children Check
• The Child Sex Offender Counsellor Accreditation Scheme 

Main areas of work

• Encouraging the participation of children and young people in decision-making that affects their lives
• Strengthening the important relationships in the lives of children and young people, and improving their well-being
• Helping create child-safe child-friendly organisations

How we do this

• Promoting ways for children and young people to participate
• Having input into laws and policies that affect children and young people
• Undertaking research, including research for the NSW Child Death Review Team
• Promoting awareness and understanding about kids' issues
• Building child-safe and child-friendly organisations
• Implementing and monitoring the Working With Children Check
• Administering the Child Sex Offender Counsellor Accreditation Scheme
• Producing publications and resources about kids' issues