Draft children in art protocols available for comment

The Australia Council for the Arts is developing a set of protocols to address the depiction of children in artworks, exhibitions and publications that receive government funding.

The draft protocols include an overview of applicable state and territory laws and a set of reasonable minimum standards which artists and organisations must follow in order to receive Federal Government funding. The overviews of applicable state and territory laws have been compiled by the Arts Law Centre of Australia.

The protocols will help artists who work with children to do so with proper care, sensitivity  and responsibility.

The Australia Council has consulted with a wide range of stakeholder groups to develop these protocols, and received input from approximately 100 representatives from government, the arts sector, the general community and child protection bodies.

The second round of consultation, where the draft protcools below were made available for public comment, closed on Thursday 27 November 2008.

The final protocols will be published on the Australia Council website and will apply to all Australia Council grants from 1 January 2009.

Download the draft protocols for working with children in art (pdf, 331kb).

Read the legal information sheets (from Arts Law Centre of Australia)
National  ACT  NSW  NT  Qld  SA  Tas  Vic  WA

Submissions on the draft protocols

Final version of the protocols for working with children in art