These policies are part of Sport NZ's overall commitment to safeguarding children and will be supplemented with further guidance, templates, knowledge-sharing and training to support national, regional and community organisations.

Our policy and procedures have been developed in partnership with Safeguarding Children - Tiakina ngā tamariki as interactive pdfs for your organisation to download and complete, by adding your organisation’s details in the fields provided, then save to your own files.

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Code of Conduct People Working or Volunteering with Children

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A Code of Conduct sets the standards of conduct and behaviour so that: 

• children, young people and their parents, carers and whānau can expect to feel safe and listened to 
  
• staff and volunteers can promote safe and effective practices in their organisation 
  
• organisations can support their staff and volunteers to provide the safeguarding standards expected by children, young people and their parents, carers and whānau. 
  

Included in this section:

• Policy 5 Code of Conduct for People Working or Volunteering with Children and Young People

This suite of policies includes: