Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum Review

What's being decided?

The Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) is an evidence-based, world leading child safety and respectful relationships curriculum. The Department for Education is reviewing the curriculum to ensure it is contemporary and responsive to emerging evidence.

Background

This major review of the curriculum will:

• consider key themes, concepts, priorities and contemporary issues regarding the teaching of child safety and respectful relationships
• identify best practice child protection curriculum research, advice and resources
• develop updated age and developmentally appropriate curriculum resources
• develop additional planning materials to support teachers and leaders with a consistent, whole school approach to implementation
• update connections to the Australian Curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework and senior secondary pathways.

Get involved

Have your say by:

• reviewing the proposed Focus Area 2 activities - consultation closes on Friday 17 November 2023
• leaving a comment
• asking a question
• emailing a submission to Education.CPC@sa.gov.au
• posting a written submission to:

Kym Tidswell
Curriculum Programs
Department for Education
GPO Box 1152, ADELAIDE SA 5001

What are the next steps?

As a teacher or leader trained and experienced in implementing the KS:CPC, your feedback will guide the review and inform conversations with leading academics and subject matter experts on the curriculum's structure, sequence and content of learning materials.

We welcome your feedback on the proposed sequence and content of the curriculum activities by completing one or more of the following consultation papers:

Focus Area 1

• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.1 Birth to age 5
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.2 Foundation to Year 2
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.3 Year 3 to 4
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.4 Year 5 to 6
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.5 Year 7 to 8
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.6 Year 9 to 10
• Focus Area 1 – paper 1.7 Year 11 to 12

Focus Area 2

• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.1 Birth to age 5
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.2 Foundation to Year 2
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.3 Year 3 to 4
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.4 Year 5 to 6
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.5 Year 7 to 8
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.6 Year 9 to 10
• Focus Area 2 – paper 2.7 Year 11 to 12

You can email your completed consultation paper(s) to Education.CPC@sa.gov.au

More information regarding the progress of the review will be published on the KS:CPC website: https://kscpc.sa.edu.au/about/review/