Western Australian guidance highlights the role of clear, accessible policies in building child-safe organisations and the everyday actions needed to put them into practice. Child safety policies provide a foundation for protecting children, but their effectiveness depends on how they guide decisions, behaviours and responses throughout an organisation. The Western Australian Department of Communities’ guidance...Read More
A coalition of advocacy and family policy groups is urging TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat to follow Meta’s lead and adopt stronger safeguards for young users. A group of parents, child advocates and family policy groups is calling on TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat to adopt the same safeguards for minors recently agreed to by Meta, arguing...Read More
October 12, 2026 JAKARTA – Indonesia has again urged Meta to comply with the country’s Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation, known as PP TUNAS, singling out its Threads platform for failing to report any action against underage users more than six months after the regulation took effect. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Communications and...Read More
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former football coach who was sentenced to house arrest for sending sexual messages to teenagers is now back in jail after he allegedly solicited a 16-year-old boy. Patrick Onesko was convicted last year of sending explicit messages to boys at South Fayette High School, where he used to coach. The Pittsburgh...Read More
A specialist child safety doctor was “stonewalled” by a child safety officer after repeatedly warning that Elizabeth Struhs would not be safe living with her mother, years before her parents allowed her to die by withdrawing lifesaving medicine, a coronial inquest has heard. Elizabeth returned to live with her parents at her family home in...Read More
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County man is behind bars after Seminole County sheriff’s deputies say he groped a woman and exposed himself at a Hindu temple near Casselberry. WESH 2 News has learned the suspect, 47-year-old Robert Winter, is a convicted sexual predator who was on probation at the time of the alleged...Read More
KUALA LUMPUR: Regular school safety audits and risk assessments are a must following the death of a 16-year-old girl at a school in Yong Peng, Johor. Malaysian Security Industry Association (PIKM) president Datuk Mohammad Ubaidillah Enam @ Iman said the association took the incident seriously and understood public concerns over student safety. “Any assessment of...Read More
Durham police are warning the public about an online network of predators who target children online and manipulate them into criminal acts. Police have been responding to a number of incidents believed to be linked to this network, known as “The Com,” short for “The Community,” Sgt. Janalyn Dowdle said in a video posted on...Read More
Nine in ten children in urgent need of state care were not helped on time in the past four months, according to new child safety figures. Quarterly performance data showed at risk children that needed to be assessed within three days had not been seen-to within that timeframe. Minister Camm said the department had experienced...Read More
It was impossible to change the mind of child safety staff after they had decided to send Elizabeth Struhs home with her parents despite some of her doctors’ concerns, a police officer has told a coronial inquest into the young girl’s death. Child safety staff decided in 2019 that it would be “more detrimental” to...Read More
