When working with children you have to consider the health and safety around the activities that you are going to be partaking in. The KCC is a type of organization, like a club or day care, this means that they have to follow the health and safety bill that is currently in place for New Zealand. After the health and safety bill update that happened in April, more responsibility has been put on supervisors, managers and over seeing staff members, making more people responsible if something goes wrong to try and get more action taken before the event.
For KCC it means that the KCO can be directly responsible if something were to happen. In the case of KCC, the KCO just has to make sure that they have looked at preventing anything that could happen, they arnt trying to stop children from playing or having fun, just to stop stupid mistakes happening.
There is more information in the links below.
http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/health-workforce/childrens-action-plan-childrens-worker-safety-checking-and-child-protection-policies
http://www.childrensactionplan.govt.nz/childrens-workforce/child-protection-policies/
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