Children and Young people
We want Vincent to be a fun, vibrant and safe place to live and play for children and young people.
Youth Action Plan
Our Youth Action Plan is about making Vincent a place where young people feel supported, connected, and empowered.
View a copy of our current Youth Action Plan here. The Department of Communities provided funding under the Youth Engagement Grants Program to help deliver this plan.
Have your say
We’re working on our next Youth Action Plan and want to know what matters most to young people. Input will help guide services, programs, and opportunities for people aged 10-25 in Vincent.
Whether you live, work, study, play sport, or spend time in Vincent, your voice counts. Parents, guardians, caregivers and local youth service providers are also invited to give input.
Survey closes Sunday 4 May 2025.
Complete the survey
What's On
As well as hosting a number of events each year, we are proud to support many youth events within the City. For a complete list of what's on, check out our events calendar.
Partnership
The City seeks to address the needs of young people within the Vincent community by offering youth focused funding to support local organisations. The City’s partnership with Y HQ Leederville aim to deliver community programs, events and services which address the needs of all the City’s young people. The partnership approach assists in providing services to those in need, by supporting the established Youth Squad, mental health workshops and employability, life and soft skill workshops.
The City is a member of the Youth Affairs Advisory Council of WA (YACWA) and Youth at Risk Network (YARN).
Local services
Get Involved
Have you got ideas or suggestions on how the City can support you to be the best you can be? We'd love to hear from you. Email your thoughts, feedback and ideas through to [email protected].
Child Safe Awareness
Background
A Royal Commission was established in January 2013 to investigate systemic failures of public and private institutions to protect children from child sexual abuse, report abuse, and respond to child sexual abuse. It also inquired into how institutions with a responsibility for children managed and responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
The recommendations emphasised that organisations working with children must be able to provide safe environments where children's rights, needs, and interests are met. The Royal Commission recommended a range of mechanisms to support child-safe organisations, including National Principles that provide a nationally consistent approach to embedding child safe cultures at all levels within organisations that engage with children.
The Royal Commission acknowledged the role that local governments play in creating and maintaining child safety in their communities and made several recommendations aimed at using this role to promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
The City of Vincent’s role
The Child Safe Awareness Policy commits the City of Vincent to build and maintain child safety awareness and knowledge by providing information for the organisations and individuals that operate in their communities and promoting child safe messages.
The City is committed to supporting the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people, including protection from abuse. This policy is one way that Council can demonstrate its commitment to being child safe and having a zero-tolerance approach to child abuse.
Resources
The Department of Local Government Sport & Cultural Industries has developed resources to support the implementing of child safe awareness policies. The resources can be downloaded and adapted as required to suit each local government and the community.
Guidelines for promoting child safe messages
Referral pathways information – resource for staff
Resources for Child Safe Organisations
Responding to Disclosure – resource for staff
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
For more information please contact the City’s Community Development team by email at [email protected]