Respect and Equality in Victorian VET: Creating Safe and Respectful VET Workplaces & Learning Environments

Name: Respect and Equality in Victorian VET: Creating Safe and Respectful VET Workplaces & Learning Environments
Start: 2025-03-25T11:00:00+1100
End: 2025-03-25T13:00:00+1100
Location: The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Tue, 25 Mar, 11am - 1pm AEDT

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Training for Respect

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Event description

Victoria’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector plays a crucial role in shaping safe, respectful, and inclusive learning and workplace environments. This event will bring together educators, industry leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders to explore practical strategies for fostering respectful and safe training settings.

Why Attend?

✅ Gain insights from leading experts on creating safe learning and workplace environments
✅ Learn practical actions to prevent workplace gendered violence in VET settings
✅ Hear directly from students, educators, and industry leaders on the importance of respect and equality
✅ Discover resources and tools from the 2025 Respect and Equality in Training campaign to support your organisation’s efforts

Speakers & Panel Discussion

The event will be opened by The Hon. Gayle Tierney, Minister for Skills and TAFE, followed by a panel discussion featuring lived experience perspectives on fostering safer, more respectful learning and working spaces. The discussion will be moderated by Jacquie O'Brien, Director, Communications and Community Change.

Who Should Attend?

🎓 TAFE & RTO educators and leaders
🏢 VET policymakers and industry representatives
💼 Employers and workplace training coordinators
👩‍🎓 Students, apprentices, and trainees

This discussion is a key opportunity to focus our collective efforts across Victorian Vocational Education to ensure every training and learning space is safe and inclusive.

📌 Secure your spot now and be part of the conversation!

🔗 Register today!

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Training for Respect seeks to improve the capacity, capability, and confidence of Victoria's adult education sector to prevent and respond to work-related gender-violence. The project aims to establish a sustainable sector-wide primary prevention infrastructure for Victorian Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). Training for Respect is proudly supported by WorkSafe Victoria’s WorkWell Respect Fund.

Working in collaboration with the sector and centring lived experience, this project will build on evidence and leading practice ways of working and:

Project Deliverables

Governance and Advice Infrastructure: Establishing a governance and advice infrastructure for the industry to oversee and drive work to prevent workplace gendered violence.
Needs Analysis Report: Producing a needs analysis report and evidence describing the prevalence and experience of workplace gendered violence within the sector.
Sector-Specific Capability Building Program: A three-part program to build capability, including:
- Online Modules: Establishing foundational knowledge of the Act, obligations, risks, hazards, and steps to prevent workplace gendered violence.
- In-Person Program for RTO Workplaces: Embedding and deepening knowledge to foster accountability and behavior change.
- In-Person Program for Leaders and Managers: Equipping leaders and managers with the skills to identify, mitigate, and eliminate workplace gendered violence.
Industry-Wide Campaign: Producing a campaign to promote agreed messages, highlighting the value and impact of eliminating workplace gendered violence on the industry, employees, and students.
Online Resource Hub: Building an online resource hub, including a referral pathway for the sector, quality information, and access to resources developed through the project.
Theory of Change and Monitoring Framework: Establishing a long-term theory of change and monitoring framework for the sector to sustain the work of preventing workplace gendered violence.
Evaluation Report: Producing an evaluation report on project outcomes, including recommendations for advancing the work under the sector's agreed Theory of Change.

Training for Respect is creating safer, more equitable workplaces across Victoria's adult education sector by promoting positive change and supporting leaders, managers, and educators in preventing and addressing workplace gender-based violence.

Training for Respect champions a cultural shift toward respect, safety, and inclusion.

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Tue, 25 Mar, 11am - 1pm AEDT

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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