Our Queensland Children’s Rights Ambassador

At Sesame Lane, we’re proud to have a Queensland Children’s Rights Ambassador as part of our leadership team. A passionate advocate dedicated to ensuring every child’s voice is heard and their rights are protected. Working closely with our Educational Leaders, our Ambassador provides mentoring, guidance, and professional learning that strengthens our child-safe culture across all centres. Together, they champion children’s rights through daily practice, helping educators create environments where every child feels respected, empowered, and free to express themselves safely. This partnership ensures that advocacy for children isn’t an initiative, it’s embedded in who we are and how we teach, every single day.

Having a dedicated Children’s Rights Ambassador at Sesame Lane helps ensure the rights of children aren’t just a policy on paper, but a living, breathing part of everyday practice. This role elevates the voices of children, affirms their dignity, and holds our organisation accountable to the promise of respect, inclusion and protection. The Ambassador acts as both a guide and a champion, strengthening our culture so that educators, families, and the broader community truly understand that every child has a right to be safe, heard, and valued.

Key responsibilities of the Queensland Children’s Rights Ambassador include:

Mentoring Sesame Lane Educational Leaders across all centres to embed children’s rights-based practices in everyday learning and decision-making.
Advocating for children’s voices, and ensuring children feel empowered to express their thoughts, choices and concerns.
Working with leadership to review and strengthen policies, procedures and culture so children’s rights are central to safeguarding, inclusion and wellbeing.
Supporting professional learning and development for staff, helping them understand children’s rights (as set out in e.g. the Children’s Rights Queensland guidance) and how to operationalise them in classrooms and interactions.
Collaborating with families and community partners to build awareness, engagement and shared commitment to children’s rights, especially for those from diverse backgrounds.
Monitoring practice and supporting continuous improvement identifying areas where children’s rights might be compromised, and working proactively to address them.
Promoting cultural safety, equity and inclusion (such as First Nations children, children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, children with diverse abilities) through a children’s‐rights lens, ensuring all children receive equal respect, opportunity and protection.
Engaging in capacity building within the organisation around listening to children, amplifying their voice, and fostering environments where children feel psychologically safe and culturally safe to participate and belong.