The National Child & Family Safety Leadership Summit 2026 brings together leaders, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and lived experience voices to explore the challenges and opportunities shaping child and family safety across Australia.
This year’s program features six important panel conversations focused on prevention, safeguarding, accountability, recovery, leadership, and systems change.
Each panel addresses a critical question facing communities and organisations today.
The Six Panel Themes
Panel 1
Children at the Centre
How can health, justice, and education systems work together to strengthen safeguarding, visibility, and systems of care for children?
Panel 2
First Nations Leadership and Governance
How should Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership and cultural authority shape responses to family violence and child safety?
Panel 3
Early Intervention and Perpetrator Accountability
How can systems better recognise coercive control, strengthen early intervention, and support accountability and lasting change?
Panel 4
Safe Homes, Health and Economic Security
How can housing, health, and economic systems support recovery, stability, and long term safety for individuals and families?
Panel 5
Prevention, Education and Technology
How can education, prevention programs, workplaces, communities, and technology work together to stop violence before it starts?
Panel 6
One System for Safety
How can shared data, workforce alignment, regulation, and restorative pathways create a more connected national system for safety?
One Summit. Shared Purpose.
The summit creates space for practical conversations, collaboration, and leadership focused on building safer futures for children, families, and communities across Australia.
Event Details
National Child & Family Safety Leadership Summit 2026
Date: 22 May 2026