If a child is in immediate danger, call 000. Otherwise the ladder runs club, then association, then Basketball Victoria, then Basketball Australia's integrity unit or its independent STOPline hotline, then the Social Services Regulator, then police. Liddicoat Basketball is not a reporting body and does not take reports. This page only lists the official pathways so you can pick the right one.
Written by Cameron James, founder and head coach at Liddicoat Basketball. Over a decade coaching junior basketball in Melbourne, including at Big V level, and rep teams from Under 12s through to Under 18s.
Last updated August 2026.
Liddicoat Basketball is not a reporting body. We do not receive, record, assess or pass on reports of any kind, and there is deliberately no form, no email address and no phone number on this page for that purpose. Everything below is a directory of the organisations that do take reports. Please contact them directly rather than contacting us.
If a child is in immediate danger, call 000. Victoria Police list Triple Zero for emergencies and the Police Assistance Line on 131 444, open 24 hours, for everything that is not an emergency, along with online reporting at onlinereporting.police.vic.gov.au. If you have information about a crime and would rather not identify yourself, Crime Stoppers takes calls nationally on 1800 333 000.
A sporting body's complaints process runs alongside the police, not instead of them. Basketball Victoria's own Child Safeguarding Policy, adopted by its board in February 2023 and effective from May 2023, tells participants to call 000 where a child is at risk of immediate harm, and to report suspected abuse to police or the relevant child protection agency.
One more practical thing before the ladder. Keep your own dated notes of what you saw or were told, and of who you contacted and when. That record is the single most useful thing you can have if a matter goes further than you expected.
Most concerns start and finish at this level, and for most concerns that is the right outcome. Basketball Victoria asks associations and clubs to appoint a Child Safety Officer or Child Welfare Officer, and that person is the intended first point of contact for anything touching a child's welfare.
Basketball Victoria's Child Safeguarding Policy states that an alleged breach should be reported to and handled by the relevant member organisation or authorised provider under its Complaints Policy. In practice, member organisation usually means your association rather than your individual club, so if the club cannot help, the association is the next rung and not a sideways step.
You are allowed to skip this rung entirely. If the concern involves the club's own leadership, if you have raised it once already and nothing happened, or if you simply do not feel safe raising it locally, go straight to the state or national body. None of the pathways below require you to have gone through the club first.
Associations differ a lot in how well they publish this. Some name their child safety officer on the website with a direct contact. Others put a single generic address on a policies page. If you cannot find a name, the association office is the place to ask for one.
Basketball Victoria publishes a page called Got Something To Report, under Resources and then Association Resources on basketballvictoria.com.au. It carries an online integrity complaint form, and links to Basketball Australia's form as well. The form is the pathway we would point a parent to, for a specific reason.
Basketball Victoria currently publishes more than one child safety contact across its own site. As at 24 August 2026, its Child Safe Standards resource page lists child.safety@basketballvictoria.com.au with a phone number of 03 9837 8025, while the Got Something To Report page lists childsafety@basketballvictoria.com.au, without the dot, alongside a separate integrity address.
We are not saying any of those is wrong, and all of them may well work. But a report that lands in a mailbox nobody watches is worse than no report at all, and a parent should not have to guess. Use the form on the official page, and if you do use a phone number or an address, take it from whichever official page you are reading at the time rather than from any second hand list, including this one.
Basketball Victoria also publishes Integrity By-Laws, Member Protection By-Laws and a set of Codes of Conduct on its association resources policies page. Those are the documents that set out how conduct matters get dealt with once a report is in.
Basketball Australia runs a National Integrity Framework, effective from 16 December 2024, which applies to all competitions and events conducted under Basketball Australia or a member state or territory association. Alleged breaches are investigated by the Basketball Australia Integrity Unit, or by other suitably qualified people under its oversight.
There are two ways in. Basketball Australia publishes an integrity report form on its National Integrity Framework page, and the Integrity Unit itself can be emailed at integrity@australia.basketball.
The independent route is STOPline, which Basketball Australia describes as its independent reporting hotline and which accepts anonymous reports at the reporter's discretion. STOPline can be reached on 1300 304 550 or at basketball@stopline.com.au, and there is a smartphone app. Basketball Australia notes that anonymous reports can significantly limit how far an investigation can go, and encourages people to include contact details where they are comfortable doing so.
For anything with a criminal element, Basketball Australia's own page points people to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 rather than handling it internally.
This is the rung most parents get wrong, and it is worth getting right before you spend an afternoon on it. Sport Integrity Australia manages formal child safeguarding and discrimination complaints, but only on behalf of sports that have adopted its National Integrity Framework.
As at 24 August 2026, Sport Integrity Australia's own page lists basketball among the sports that have not adopted that framework, alongside AFL, cricket, football, netball, the NRL, rugby, surf life saving and tennis. For those sports it says it can still provide guidance, but the complaint itself should be directed to the sport. That is why the basketball pathways above are the operative ones.
What Sport Integrity Australia does offer everyone is the Safe Sport Hotline on 1800 161 361. That line exists for confidential guidance about your options before you decide whether to make a complaint at all, including help identifying which organisation you should be contacting. If you are unsure where you sit, it is a sensible first call and it commits you to nothing.
The Australian Sports Commission separately publishes a confidential helpline on 1800 272 4357, open 7am to 7pm every day, for people who are affected by or at risk of sexual misconduct in sport. It is a support line rather than a reporting channel, and the Commission's page directs anyone in immediate danger to 000.
The Social Services Regulator has been responsible for the Child Safe Standards and the Reportable Conduct Scheme since 23 February 2026, and also administers the Working with Children Check. If your concern is that an organisation is not meeting the Child Safe Standards, this is the body that regulates that. Its general enquiries number is 1300 310 778 and it publishes contact details and web forms through the Victorian Government site at vic.gov.au.
The Commission for Children and Young People confirms on its own site that reports made to it before 23 February 2026 were transferred across, that nobody needs to report a second time, and that anyone concerned about Child Safe Standards compliance should now contact the Regulator directly.
For anything that may be criminal, the police are the pathway and the sport is not. Victoria Police list 000 for emergencies, 131 444 for the Police Assistance Line and online reporting for non urgent matters. Sport Integrity Australia's guidance says the same, and adds that where you have reasonable grounds to suspect a child has been harmed you can also report to your state or territory child protection service, with contacts listed at childsafety.gov.au.
Once more, deliberately. This page is a directory of other people's reporting pathways. Liddicoat Basketball does not take reports, cannot assess one and cannot act on one. Please use the organisations listed here.
No. Every pathway above can be used directly. Going local first is often quicker and it is what the sport's own policies assume, but nothing requires it, and if the concern involves the club's leadership then going local first is the wrong move.
Sometimes. STOPline accepts anonymous reports at the reporter's discretion, and Crime Stoppers is built for it. Sport Integrity Australia states that formal complaints to it cannot be submitted anonymously, though it does accept information anonymously. Basketball Australia notes anonymity can limit an investigation.
Use the online form on its Got Something To Report page rather than an address. As at 24 August 2026, Basketball Victoria publishes two slightly different child safety email addresses across its own pages, so the form removes the guesswork.
Not formal ones. As at 24 August 2026 its own page lists basketball among the sports that have not adopted its National Integrity Framework, and says complaints for those sports should go to the sport directly. It will still give guidance through the Safe Sport Hotline.
The Safe Sport Hotline on 1800 161 361 exists for exactly that. Sport Integrity Australia describes it as confidential guidance about your options, including help working out which organisation is the right one, before you decide whether to make a complaint.
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Facts on this page were compiled from the official sources below and written up in our own words. Dates, fees and venues change every season, so confirm anything you are relying on with the association directly.
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