The LCA Child Safety Standards (CSS) for Congregations are designed to help congregations maximise the safety of children and young people.

It is also envisaged that they will help the church to meet its regulatory responsibilities in response to an increasingly rigorous child safety landscape in Australia and New Zealand. This is especially so in the wake of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The draft Standards were developed by the LCANZ’s Child Protection Project Team, considered by the General Church Board during 2020 and approved for consultation (prior to COVID-19 travel restrictions).