This mixed-methods project measured current organisational safety climate and practices within Save the Children – Australian Services. Data was used to develop an organisation-wide online professional development training package focused on contextual prevention frameworks to support and enhance child-safe practices in this organisation. The secondary aim was to further validate Kaufman’s Organisational Safety Climate Survey, and assess the psychometric properties the newly developed short-form survey (McKillop, Rayment-McHugh, Kaufman, Ransley, & Gardiner, 2020) for measuring organisational change.

Impact

Recommendations from this report resulted in the development of a nation-wide organisational training package on contextual prevention strategies that was then piloted in a subsequent research study under the Westpac Safer Children, Safer Communities grant scheme.

Chief Investigators: McKillop, N. Rayment-McHugh, S., Christensen, L. & Adams, D

Research Assistant: Robertson, A., and Jansen, K.

Funding Body: Save the Children Australia 

Funding year: 2020-2021