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Acknowledgements & Statements

Acknowledgment of Traditional landowners

The Canopy acknowledges the Awabakal People, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and learn. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We honour the collective knowledge and experience of First Nations Peoples within our community, families, and organisation. We value our connections with community and commit to ongoing listening and learning as we walk alongside First Nations Peoples.

Statement of Commitment to Equity and Diversity

We value each person’s worth and identity. We will treat each person with respect and dignity. We will strive to make our services and business inclusive for our staff and community. It’s our wish that each one feels accepted and safe with us. We will continue to learn and understand. We will build our appreciation of equity and diversity. This will guide what we do and can best care in a way which covers the diversity of the community and our staff.

Statement of Commitment to Child Safety

The Canopy is committed to keeping children and young people safe. Children and young people have a fundamental right to be safe from harm and to grow up free of violence and exploitation. We have a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of abuse, neglect, violence or exploitation of children and young people.

We are committed to:
• Implementing the National ‘Child-Safe Scheme’ 10 National Child Safe Standards across all our facilities, services, business operations and human resources.

• The prevention and reporting of abuse.

• Providing a safe and supportive environment for all children and young people.

• Making sure that children and young people are not exposed to any form of harmful conduct or abuse.

• Empowering children to participate in decisions that affect them and share any concerns they may have.

• Making sure children know who to approach if they feel unsafe or have any child safety concerns.

As a child safe organisation, we commit to:
• Educating everyone involved in our Organisation about what it means to be a child safe organisation, so that we can prevent, detect and effectively respond to child abuse.

• Making sure everyone involved in our Organisation knows how to appropriately respond to complaints, allegations, disclosures and breaches to our Child Safe Code of Conduct.

• Promoting the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children.

•Welcoming feedback to continuously improve our child safe policies, procedures and practices.

• Making sure that when families and community members interact with our Organisation, they are aware that child safety is everyone’s responsibility, and their behaviour aligns with our child safe practices.