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In 2024, new privacy laws, known as the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment (POLA) Act 2024, ordered the development of the Children’s Online Privacy Code (the Code).
As part of this process, we are inviting children, young people and parents and carers to share their feedback on the Code.
The Children’s Online Privacy Code is currently a draft.
We are still planning what special rules online services should have to follow, but we are showing the public what we have brainstormed so far to get their feedback.
The OAIC recognises the importance for children and young people to receive real-time support while participating in the public consultation.
To this end, we welcome the support of educators and facilitators to help children and young people participate in the draft Code consultationsand have created the below resources to assist.
Learn more about the Children’s Online Privacy Code at the Privacy for Kids – Children’s Online Privacy Code page.
Child-friendly guides to the draft Code
The official draft Code is a long document filled with lots of words that relate to the law.
That is why we have worked with a group of young people to help make child-friendly guides that explain the draft Code.
Check out our:
- short guide, best for primary school aged children, and
- extended (longer) guide, best for young people and parents and carers.
But everyone is welcome to check out either the short or extended guides!
Posters
To help raise awareness of the public consultation, we have created A3 posters that you can download, print and hang up in your classroom, school, club or other out-of-school activity space.
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How to get involved
If you are an educator
Educators are teachers or learning professionals who lead classes with either primary or secondary school aged children.
The OAIC will be releasing a teachers guide and lesson plan (PPTX) to support classroom participation in the draft Code consultation.
Primary School (Year 3-6)
- Lesson plan – COMING Term 2
Secondary School (Year 7-9)
- Lesson plan – COMING Term 2
These resources have been made available for Term 2 to support a lesson about online privacy that will help your students participate in the public consultation on the draft Code.
The lesson plan will guide your students as they engage with the consultation by linking concepts in the National Curriculum to terms used in the consultation materials and questions.
The lesson plan ends with an activity that allow students to provide their feedback on the draft Code.
Step 1: Plan to run a lesson in Term 2 sometime between Term 2, sometime in May.
Step 2: Run lesson in class before 5 June 2026,
- Teachers Guide
- Lesson plan –COMING Term 2
Step 3: Submit one whole class response via Group online form by 5 June 2026.
- Online form: Educators and Facilitators - Years 3-6: Primary school aged children (recommended)
- Online form: Educators and Facilitators - Years 7-12: Secondary school aged children (recommended)
Submissions close: Friday 5 June 2026
If you would prefer, your students can also share their feedback by completing worksheets individually.
Learn more about ways children and young people can submit their feedback individually, visit the Children’s Online Privacy Code (consultation for children and parents) page.
If you are a facilitator
Facilitators are professionals with a working with children check (WWCC) who regularly work with cohorts of children and young people. These include, but are not limited to: clubs, out-of-school organisations, child advocacy groups and child welfare organisations.
The OAIC has developed a workshop agenda (slideshow) that can be used for either in-person or online workshop that support children and young people’s participation in the public consultation.
The workshop agenda will help facilitators guide children and young people through the consultation materials. These consultation materials are worksheets with questions that allow children and young people to give their feedback on the draft Code.
Step 1: Plan for workshop between 31 March 2026 to 5 June 2026.
Step 2: Run workshop either in-person or online
- Workshop agenda for children – recommended for primary school aged children, Years 3-6 (PPTX, 8299 KB)
- Workshop agenda for young people – recommended for secondary school aged children, Years 7-12(PPTX, 7511 KB)
Step 3: Submit one whole group response via Group online form by 5 June 2026
- Online form: Educators and Facilitators - Years 3-6: Primary school aged children (recommended)
- Online form: Educators and Facilitators - Years 7-12: Secondary school aged children (recommended)
If you would prefer, your cohort of children and young people can also share their feedback by completing worksheets individually.
Learn more about ways children and young people can submit their feedback individually, check out Children’s Online Privacy Code (consultation for children and parents).
More information
For more information, visit our Privacy for kids hub.
