For over a decade, the NCCA Safe Church Program has led the ecumenical endeavour to make Australian Churches safe for children and vulnerable people. It has its own membership base that includes both NCCA member and non-member churches, and it works across all denominations to support churches in their safeguarding journey.

It is our core business to strengthen relationships across churches/ Christian faith communities, government agencies and other bodies to create safer organisations.

To learn more about us, including our values and objectives, visit ‘About the Safe Church Program’ 

Since the commencement of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the release of the recommendations in December 2017, Australian churches and Christian ministries have embarked on historic changes.

The NCCA Safe Church Program consults with member churches about the  resources required to assist with capacity-building in safeguarding issues and professional standards.

NCCA is committed to assisting our Churches and Christian communities to effectively meet the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. 

To this end we offer the NCCA Child Safety Framework and all its associated resources which we continue to build upon and keep up to date.

The Framework and resources support awareness-raising workshops and other training related to the safety and prevention of abuse of children and vulnerable adults.

For clarity on these changes, read our ‘ pdf Safe Church Program changes FAQ (133 KB) ’.

For the Safe Church Workshop National Calendar

click here