National Child Protection Week

National Child Protection Week is an annual campaign that aims to raise awareness that the wellbeing and safety of Australia's children is everyone's responsibility.

National Child Protection Week 2009

NCPW 2009 marked the start of a two month campaign to engage the whole of the Australian community in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

The key message of the campaign was: 

Walls protect child abuse, not children.  Break down the walls and help bring child abuse out into the open.

Act now against child abuse.

The safety and wellbeing of Australia's children is everybody's business - it is not just the responsibility of governments but a responsibility that should be shared by the whole Australian community; individuals, professionals, business and the media.

Did you know that over 30,000 individual children were abused or neglected in Australia last year? How can this happen in our community?

Perhaps it's because child abuse largely remains hidden behind walls - the real walls between us in our communities and the walls of fear, ignorance, denial and disinterest.

These walls protect child abuse, not children. So if we are going to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all of Australia's children we must bring child abuse out into the open.

As a first step NAPCAN called on all Australian adults to start thinking and talking about this issue, not just people who have children but everyone, to help solve this problem.

National Child Protection Week 2010 

Details of these events will follow shortly.