Child Safe Standards (Module 1)
This foundational module explains why safeguarding matters in dance, how the 10 Child Safe Standards and the Universal Principle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children apply to your studio, and how building a culture of safety and inclusion protects every child. Lessons include:
Safety in Dance
The 10 Child Safe Standards
Cultural Safety as the Foundation
Reflective Practice for Safety & Growth
Goal Setting for Your Studio
Physical Safeguarding (Module 2)
This module guides you to create physically safe and sustainable dance training environments that protect growing bodies, reduce injury risk, and support dancers’ long-term health and development. Lessons include:
The Anatomy of Flexibility Training
The Power of Breath Training
Safe Flexibility Training
Introduction to Cross-Training
Choosing the Right Cross-Training
Periodisation, Rest and Recovery
Injury Prevention and Risk Management
Nutrition and Body Image (Module 3)
This module helps you support young dancers’ physical health and body confidence by promoting healthy fuelling habits, recognising early warning signs, using safe language, and embedding everyday studio practices that protect wellbeing. Lessons include:
Nutrition Foundations
Under-Fuelling, Dieting, and RED-S
Eating Disorders Awareness
Body Image in Dance
Creating a Body Neutral Studio Environment
Social and Emotional Wellbeing (Module 4)
This module gives practical ways to support children’s social and emotional wellbeing, helping you set healthy boundaries, build consent and respect, and create a studio environment where every child feels safe, confident and valued. Lessons include:
The Empowered Body
Consent in Dance
Boundaries, Power and Communication
The Resilient Mind
Learner-Centred Practice, Expression and Empowerment
Performance and Digital Safe Spaces (Module 5)
This module helps your studio manage safety across performances and online spaces, recognising that today’s dancers rehearse, perform and share in a world where the stage and social media often overlap. Lessons include:
The New Performance Spaces
Performance Spaces Deep Dive
Empowering Students in Performance Spaces
Competition and Eisteddfods
Supporting Studio Online Safety
