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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
Home » Keeping Kids Safe »The award-winning Australia’s Biggest Child Safety Lesson (ABCSL) is back to deliver important safety messages to children, for its eighth consecutive year. The 2024 lesson teaches early primary years – aged 4 to 7 – enthusiastic consent, and upper primary years – aged 8 to 12 – affirmative consent.
Building on what students learnt in 2023 about consent, ABCSL 2024 provides an easy way for teachers, parents and carers to have conversations about enthusiastic and affirmative consent confidently with children. 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.
ABCSL was livestreamed to hundreds of thousands of students on 3 September 2024, during National Child Protection Week.
Registrations are already being taken for 2025. Register now to be the first to access information and materials and 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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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2020 - Early Years
For children aged 4 to 7, the early years lesson focuses on safe and unsafe secrets and surprises.
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2019
Suitable for children aged 9 to 12 years of age. Our ABCSL news style lesson discusses safety issues with young people.
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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.