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Children's Week WA 2024 18 to 27 October 2024

Celebrating our amazing children and inspiring the next generation

Oct 18, 2024
Children's Week 2024: a week of fun, learning, and advocacy for children throughout Western Australia

Tags: Child safeguarding

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Children's Week WA 2024 18 to 27 October 2024

Celebrating our amazing children and inspiring the next generation

18 October 2024
Children's Week 2024: a week of fun, learning, and advocacy for children throughout Western Australia
An indoor gymnastics studio with gymnastics training equipment.

Former WAIS gymnasts to be offered acknowledgement payments

29 May 2024

Media release

The WA Government will offer acknowledgement payments to gymnasts who suffered physical and/or emotional harm while taking part in the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) coaching program that ran from 1988 to 2016.
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True Sport child safeguarding resources unveiled

10 November 2023
Latest initiative to create and maintain safe environments for children and young people in sport.

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