Child Safety Hub

Our thoughts are with the injured, their families and those who have lost loved ones because of this tragedy.
On Sunday evening Lifeblood issued several life-threatening orders for O negative blood, in the wake of the incident at Bondi Beach.
Please make an appointment for the coming days and weeks if you can https://app.lifeblood.com.au/XW3k/d9wncrn5

Support is available through the Victims Support Scheme for the families of those who have tragically died and the victims who have been affected by the shootings at Bondi Beach on Sunday, 14 December 2025.

The Victims Support Scheme can provide:
• Counselling, financial assistance and a recognition payment for immediate family members of the victims who have lost their lives and to the victims who have been injured
• Counselling for those who were witnesses.

For further information about the support available, call Victims Services on 1800 411 822 or visit https://victimsservices.justice.nsw.gov.au/how-can-we-help-you/victims-support-scheme.html

Support is available through the Victims Support Scheme for the families of those who have lost their lives and those who have been affected by the violent acts at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025.

The Victims Support Scheme provides:
• counselling to help victims recover from the psychological and emotional impacts of a crime
• financial assistance for immediate needs to help cover urgent health, safety or security expenses resulting from the violent crime
• financial assistance for economic loss to cover other expenses resulting from a violent crime
• assistance to pay for funeral expenses on behalf of family members of a homicide victim
• a recognition payment to acknowledge the violent crime.

Please call 1800 411 822 from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

For more information, visit: nsw.gov.au/bondibeachattack

Amazing Generosity!!

New laws are here for early learning services in NSW.

Here’s what you need to know:

• All early learning services in NSW must clearly display their compliance and quality history. This helps parents see how each service is performing and meeting the National Law and National Regulations.
• New rules apply to the use and carrying of devices that can take, store or share images, such as phones, tablets or smartwatches, by anyone working directly with children.
• Tough new fines apply if these rules aren’t followed. These changes are designed to make services safer, increase transparency, and ensure that children’s rights and best interests are the top priority.

Learn more about child safety in early childhood education and care: bit.ly/child-safety-info

A provider of three of the world’s most widely used ‘nudify’ services has withdrawn access in Australia. This is in response to our enforcement action against the company for allowing its services to be used to create artificially generated child sexual exploitation material.

We issued the UK-based company with a formal warning in September for non-compliance with Australia’s mandatory codes and standards, which require all members of the online industry to take meaningful steps to tackle the worst-of-the-worst online content, including child sexual abuse material.

The ‘nudify’ services provided by the company were receiving approximately 100,000 visits a month from Australians and have featured in high-profile cases related to the creation of AI-generated sexual exploitation material of students in Australian schools.

This comes as global AI model hosting platform Hugging Face has also taken key steps to comply with Australian law after warnings from eSafety that certain generative AI models it hosts are being misused by Australians to create AI-generated child sexual exploitation material.

Hosting platforms like Hugging Face act like the gatekeepers of distribution of these powerful AI models, much the same way the more traditional app stores do, so it’s equally important to ensure they also have measures in place to protect children.

Following engagement from eSafety about compliance concerns, Hugging Face has now changed their terms of service so that all account holders are required take steps to minimise the risks associated with models that they upload, specifically to prevent misuse to generate child sexual exploitation material or pro-terror material.

If Hugging Face fails to take appropriate action for a breach of its terms, eSafety could take enforcement action. eSafety has a range of enforcement mechanisms under the Online Safety Act where any company fails to comply with an industry code or standard, including seeking penalties of up to $49.5m.

Learn more: https://news.esafety.gov.au/483wouX

Child Safety Hub There is no higher priority than protecting our children. The NSW Police Legacy Child Safety Handbook is an essential free resource for every parent, carer and teacher and includes everything we need as a community to keep kids safe and out of harms way.

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Tony Leventhal, Natasha Leventhal