{"id":4292,"date":"2019-11-21T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2019-11-21T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:37:26","slug":"childrens-guardian-bill-passes-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/childrens-guardian-bill-passes-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILDREN\u2019S GUARDIAN BILL PASSES PARLIAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New laws that give the Children\u2019s Guardian greater authority and oversight to help protect children and young people have passed NSW Parliament.<br \/>\nMinister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward said the\u00a0<em>Children\u2019s Guardian Bill 2019<\/em>\u00a0brings religious bodies, and agencies that engage contractors who work with children, into the Reportable Conduct Scheme, with tough penalties for anyone who fails to comply.<br \/>\n\u201cThis legislation will provide the independent regulator with the powers they need to help detect, investigate and deal with those who behave inappropriately around children,\u201d Mr Ward said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis legislation seeks to close existing loopholes and future-proof the Children\u2019s Guardian to make sure the framework for protecting our kids is as strong as possible.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen it comes to child protection, our Government makes no apology for taking a tough and necessary stance to keep children safe.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Bill will implement a number of recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.<br \/>\nThe NSW Government has had the most comprehensive response of any state or territory to the Royal Commission, strengthening measures to prevent child abuse, ensuring greater access to treatment and support services and toughening the criminal and civil justice response to child offence matters.<br \/>\nThe Office of the Children\u2019s Guardian is an independent Statutory Authority that works to protect children and young people by promoting and regulating quality, child safe organisations and services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New laws that give the Children\u2019s Guardian greater authority and oversight to help protect children and young people have passed NSW Parliament. Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward said the\u00a0Children\u2019s Guardian Bill 2019\u00a0brings religious bodies, and agencies that engage contractors who work with children, into the Reportable Conduct Scheme, with tough penalties &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/childrens-guardian-bill-passes-parliament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHILDREN\u2019S GUARDIAN BILL PASSES PARLIAMENT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}