Life Ed QLD CEO Taryn Black with RedCity Roar’s Chris Angus. Photo: Supplied.
CONTRIBUTED BY REDCITY ROAR
RedCity Roar is proud to announce a new partnership with Life Ed Queensland to deliver a comprehensive Child Safeguarding Program, funded by the Queensland Family & Child Commission (QFCC).
This initiative marks a significant step forward in strengthening child safety practices across the Redlands basketball community.
Earlier this year, RedCity Roar received significant funding from the QFCC to enhance the capacity of local clubs and administrators in upholding child safeguarding responsibilities.
With this funding, RedCity has engaged Life Ed Queensland as expert consultants to help roll out the program over the next nine months.
The project aims to translate the Child Safe Standards and Universal Principle into practical, sport-specific strategies that can be scaled across community basketball organisations. Through this initiative, RedCity Roar will empower clubs to embed child safety into every aspect of their operations.
The initiative will:
- Undertake consultation with affiliated clubs to understand current practices, needs, and challenges in child safeguarding.
- Co-design workshops with young people to develop child-friendly resources that promote rights awareness, safety, and inclusion.
- Develop and deliver tailored training for coaches, referees, volunteers, and administrators on the Child Safe Standards and cultural safety, supported by toolkits and practical checklists.
- Launch digital tools such as a centralised Blue Card register, incident reporting templates, and compliance tracking dashboards, made available to partner clubs and designed for easy replication.
- Provide ongoing support and review, including follow-up with participating clubs, collecting feedback, and adapting tools and resources for long-term sustainability.
- Build local leadership and confidence, empowering clubs to embed child safeguarding into governance, operations, and culture.
- Foster collaboration across clubs, strengthen relationships, promote shared learning, and align standards across the region.
By creating flexible, community-driven solutions, this project will help our affiliated clubs grow their safeguarding maturity and embed sustainable, culturally safe practices across the Redlands basketball sector.
Chris Angus, General Manager for RedCity Roar, is excited about the new partnership and the significance of this project.
“It’s great to commence this important partnership with Life Education Queensland to assist us in supporting and improving our Child Safeguarding practices and knowledge within our association,” said Chris.
“It means we can create the safest and most enjoyable space possible for the thousands of juniors who have connections with RedCity basketball.
“To create this partnership with a trusted organisation such as Life Ed Queensland, highlights our commitment to delivering this project at the highest standards that will enable us to engage in, and in some cases, introduce the significant child safe standards and principles to our clubs and administrators, many of whom are volunteers.”
