Speakers:

Leisl Egan, Child Safety & Wellbeing Advocate, ABC
Kim Collins, Head of Safeguarding, BBC (UK)
Duration: 60 mins

This session examines how commissioners approach child safety and safeguarding in practice, and what producers are expected to demonstrate when developing and delivering projects involving children.

Focus: Understanding how child safety and wellbeing expectations are embedded across commissioning, development, and production processes, and how producers can align their practices with both cultural and procedural safeguarding standards.

Talking points:

• How commissioners set and communicate child safety and safeguarding expectations through guidance, portals, and handbooks
• Child safety as an active mindset, including consideration of the child’s on-set experience and potential longer-term impacts of participation
• Producer responsibility for child safety and wellbeing across development, production, and delivery
• Risk identification, planning, documentation, and escalation when working with children
• Practical insights from a children’s production case study, highlighting applied decision-making and lessons learned