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2024 - Upper Primary
For children aged 8 to 12, the theme will focus on enthusiastic consent including how to give and receive it, and how to identify grooming and coercive behaviours.
Australia's Biggest Child Safety Lesson 2025
Home » Keeping Kids Safe »Australia’s Biggest Child Safety Lesson (ABCSL) is back to deliver important safety messages to children in 2025.
ABCSL 2025 will focus on Contextual Prevention which can be translated to Safe Spaces, creating safer environments for children in online and offline spaces.
ABCSL 2025 will launch on 9 September 2025, during National Child Protection Week.
The lower primary lesson is created for children aged 7 to 9 and upper primary years for children aged 9 to 12.
Ready-made resources and lessons are also available that explore how to recognise, react and report and practice strategies to use to receive or deny consent affirmatively.
Register now to be the first to access information and materials. Take a look at videos from previous years below.
ABCSL / Interactive Resource / School & ELC Resources
2024 - Early Years and Lower Primary
For children aged 4 to 7, the theme will focus on enthusiastic consent including how to give and receive it, and how to identify grooming and coercive behaviours.
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2023 - Upper Primary
For children aged 8 to 12 with focus on the concepts of ‘my body, my choice’, and strategies children can then use when they need to seek, give or deny consent (permission).
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2023 - Early Years and Lower Primary
For children aged 4 to 7 with focus on the concepts of ‘my body, my choice’, and strategies children can then use when they need to seek, give or deny consent (permission).
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2022 - Upper Primary
For children aged 8 to 12, the theme will focus on a focus on boundaries and body parts, using age-appropriate, evidence based personal safety education strategies.
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2022 - Early Years
For children aged 4 to 7, the theme will focus on a focus on boundaries and body parts, using age-appropriate, evidence based personal safety education strategies.
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2021 – Early Years
For children aged 4 to 7 the lesson will focus on help seeking strategies.
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2021 - Upper Primary
The Upper primary lesson is aimed at children aged 8 to 12, the theme will focus on help seeking.
Upper primary lesson synopsis Educator Guide Parent and Carer Guide Upper primary lesson plans Activity - Recognise body clues Activity - Reaction Activity - Where kids find help Junior Journo Challenge-Educator guide Junior Journo Challenge-Student guide Upper primary PowerPoint How to participate Lesson toolkit
ABCSL / Interactive Resource / Resources for Parents and Carers / Resources for teachers
2020 - Upper Primary
Our upper primary lesson will focus on recognising safe and unsafe situations in the real and online world, for children aged 8 to 12.
ABCSL / Interactive Resource / Resources for Parents and Carers / Resources for teachers / Factsheet
2020 - Early Years
For children aged 4 to 7, the early years lesson focuses on safe and unsafe secrets and surprises.
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2019
Suitable for children aged 9 to 12 years of age. Our ABCSL news style lesson discusses safety issues with young people.
ABCSL / School & ELC Resources
2018 - Safety school
Suitable for children 3 to 8 years old, ABCSL Safety School teaches key personal safety concepts for early childhood.
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2017
Children aged 8 to 12 years old will learn how to Recognise, React and Report unsafe situations and help promote personal safety.