About Us
Safeguarding Our Children Support does just that – we support your organisation to create and maintain a culture that protects and supports children and young people. We focus on practical methods that are child focused and work in your organisational environment.
Children and young people deserve safe places and capable people.
Children and young people deserve to be in organisations that take the time to review their practices and look for ways to improve.
Do you want to check your guiding documents and practice regarding Child Safe Standards, Universal Principle, Reportable Conduct, mandatory reporting and supporting young people?
What’s your
culture?
A culture that focuses on child protection compliance feels heavy, burdened and forced.
A culture that focuses on child protection feels strong, purposeful and worthwhile.
We see the difference during audits and evaluations ...
Which describes your organisation’s culture?
Compliance or protection?
Or perhaps the culture is unclear and loose.
A protective culture is better for everyone in the organisation.
Our Team
Yvette Wright Director
M Education Studies B Business (UQ)
Yvette has been working with child focused organisations since 2014. She is an experienced corporate educator, researcher, policy reviewer and developer, mentor and leader. Yvette's specialty is systems thinking, process mapping, simplifying processes, and seeing how children benefit or could possibly be harmed through corporate practice.
Yvette specialises in desktop reviews of current practice, offering fresh eyes and practical improvements. This is a fabulous opportunity to have someone external to your organisation look across your documents for compliance, contradictions, version issues, gaps and opportunities to strengthen practice. In many cases, Yvette finds organisations are practicing in ways not accurately documented and therefore understating their great practice.
Yvette believes audits are an opportunity to gauge compliance, educate and support staff. Her style is approachable, confident and supportive in interviews. Her ability to see patterns, gaps and opportunities in data and processes results in a report that is accurate and a road map for future improvements.
Yvette shines in a workshop where she brings the stakeholders to the table: working with the team to make solutions that will work for them in their organisation, meet legislative requirements and reinforce a protective culture.
Yvette’s style is enthusiastic, informative, scenario based and action focused. Your team will walk away with a renewed dedication to wholistic systems for protection, an action plan and a sense of confidence.
We take confidentiality seriously however references can be supplied on request.
Subcontractors
SO Children uses appropriate professionals to provide specialist services as required.
All sub-contractors are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement and undertake appropriate induction and supervision. Subcontractors are chosen through our experience of their professional practice and a shared vision for the protection of children and young people.