The Child Safeguarding Podcast is an Australian podcast for anyone that runs or works for a child-serving organisation and wants to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people is maintained. We speak to experts and leaders in child safeguarding, child protection and child wellbeing.
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Guest:
Kim Dickinson
Kim is a Safeguarding and Child Protection Consultant who has moved from the UK to New Zealand. Since being in New Zealand, Kim has supported both of New Zealand’s main child protection charities and YMCA. Kim now runs her own business, Holistic Safeguarding which offers safeguarding and child protection eLearning, training, consultancy and resource support. Kim’s passion continues to be helping sectors and organisations create a safeguarding culture that protects everyone – children/young people, staff/volunteers and the organisation.
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Phillip Doorgachurn
Phil is the National Executive for Safeguarding at the YMCA of Australia as well as the Director of Safeguarding in Sport at LimeCulture. Phil has a long history in safeguarding and sport, as an undergraduate, Phil published his research ‘Narratives of Abuse in Sport’. For this cutting-edge research, Phil was awarded the British Olympic Foundation Award. Phil has a statutory background within the police managing youth diversion schemes for children affected by gangs and also holds an education qualification where he taught disadvantaged young people for a number of years.
Phil worked within the training and consultancy unit at the NSPCC for several years supporting individuals and organisations to transform their safeguarding provision, processes and case management. More recently, Phil has been the strategic lead for safeguarding at Arsenal FC, the Lawn Tennis Association and Premier League Charitable Fund.
The Y – Safeguarding Children and Young People
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