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ACT Alliance Child Safeguarding PolicyACT Alliance Child Safeguarding Policy - https://actalliance.org/documents/child-safeguarding-policy/ACT Alliance - Child Safeguarding Policy - Guidance Policy https://actalliance.org/documents/act-alliance-child-safeguarding-guidance-document/THE ACT CHILD SAFEGUARDING POLICY REQUIRES ACT MEMBERS TO:
These are the Principles underpinning the ACT Alliance Child Safeguarding policy. They are drawn from international human rights principles such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as humanitarian principles of ‘do no harm’. These principles will help ACT member agencies ensure that child safeguarding is fully implemented throughout the organisation. Developing and adopting a policy is not enough. There is a saying that, “A policy isn’t worth the paper it’s written on” - Unless a policy is fully implemented it might as well not exist. A piece of paper alone will not protect children from abuse by staff and others. Implementing and monitoring best practice will, however, ensure that every possible step has been taken to protect children from abuse by staff and through any association with the agency. The ACT Alliance Child Safeguarding Policy was developed using global best practices in the field, including years of learning and development about what makes a robust, actionable child safeguarding policy… and what will protect children from all forms of abuse. | |
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Child Friendly Code of Conduct/Child Safeguarding policiesSave the Children Child Safeguarding Policy Child-Friendly Version: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/library/save-children-child-safeguarding-policy-child-friendly-version | |
CHILD-FRIENDLY FEEDBACK MECHANISMSChild-Friendly Feedback Mechanisms: Guide and Toolkit - Plan International At Plan International, child-friendly feedback mechanisms are key to our accountability towards children, young people and their communities. These mechanisms provide them with critical information and opportunities to provide feedback on our humanitarian programming. Feedback mechanisms also play a critical role in safeguarding and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. Our child-friendly feedback mechanisms are adapted to suit children of all ages, genders and those with disabilities. Children’s safety is also paramount during these processes and we promote their leadership in designing and implementing feedback mechanisms. The guide and 20 accompanying tools support practitioners to design, implement and monitor feedback mechanisms. The training manual includes session plans, handouts and exercises for face to face training sessions. | |
Code of ConductExamples of Code of Conduct: Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross Movement and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-1067.pdf Australian Council for International Development Code of Conduct: https://acfid.asn.au/content/read-code Do you have more? Please send them in and we would be happy to display them in the wiki | |
COVID-19 Get the latest information from the Department of Health about COVID-19. See more resources on Google Child Safeguarding during COVID-19
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Disability-inclusive child safeguarding toolkithttps://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/disabiltiy-inclusive-child-safeguarding-toolkit.pdf/ This tool is designed to help practitioners working with children with disabilities. Using participatory approaches1, the tool helps to identify potential safeguarding risks and risk mitigation strategies to ensure all activities are safe and inclusive. Safe programming is not about mitigating all risks, all actions have risks and attempting to mitigate all risks may mean the programme will not go ahead. This is
particularly important when working with
children with disabilities as there may
be more risks and therefore, if we are
attempting to mitigate all risks there is a
greater chance that the activity will not go
ahead resulting in even less provision for
children with disabilities. However, it is
essential we identify, monitor, and build into
our programme design risks that children
with disabilities may experience as a result
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E-learning courses - Disaster Ready.org - Investigating Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThis online learning course found on Disaster Ready This 5-hour course aims at helping UN partners to enhance their skills in investigating allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) of beneficiaries in humanitarian settings.
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Focal Points - Child SafeguardingWhat is the role of the nominated child protection lead in safeguarding children and young people?Podcast - https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/news/2019/august/podcast-nominated-child-protection-lead | |
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https://www.keepingchildrensafe.global/blog/2020/02/02/the-safeguarding-children-in-peacekeeping-toolkit/The Safeguarding Children in Peacekeeping Toolkit - Keeping Children Safe This toolkit builds upon our expertise and our research, which provides the evidence-base for how to safeguard children from peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse. It is based on: desk research on law, human rights, and political science; qualitative data gathered from field research; and work with stakeholders. This creates a context-specific toolkit for Peacekeeping Training Centres, Troop-Contributing Countries, international organisations, implementing partners, and other actors and entities involved with peacekeeping. Using interdisciplinary research and through working with a comprehensive group of stakeholders, we have created an evidence-base for recommendations necessary to drive forward the research and policy agenda. The Safeguarding Children in Peacekeeping Toolkit (PDF), versions of which have been implemented successfully in thousands of organisations in nearly every country in the world, is based on international standards for child safeguarding, and is implemented within an organisation through (i) a self-assessment of current policies and practices, (ii) a robust mapping of relevant local and international laws and practices on child safeguarding, (iii) developing context-specific policies, measures and procedures based on the organisation and the legal mapping, (iv) training, and (v) follow-up. | |
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Management of child safeguarding allegationsHere you will find a comprehensive guide to the management of child safeguarding allegations from Keeping Children Safe. Click https://www.keepingchildrensafe.global/blog/2020/05/13/management-of-child-safeguarding-allegations/ link to open resource. The KCS Management of Child Safeguarding Allegations (pdf) guidance provides an overview of how to manage incidents and concerns where it involves a member of staff, consultant, associate or a volunteer from one or more agencies or partner agencies. The guidance will:
It is specifically targeted at more senior managers who hold designated responsibility for overseeing such investigations. It should complement internal child safeguarding policies, procedures, and developing model investigation protocols. A range of tools can be used to accompany this guidance and can be found in the appendices. The guidance relates to child safeguarding and is not to be used for other types of investigations, but managers may draw parallels with responsibilities in managing other concerns. If child abuse is suspected within a family or involving a non-agency person, the organisation should follow their own procedures and the country’s legislation and process for reporting these concerns to authorities. This guidance does not address these concerns. Please refer to Keeping Children Safe: Developing Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. | ||
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Organisational Self AssessmentDoing an organisational self-assessment: This free, no-obligation self-assessment is a powerful tool that helps you gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation’s child safeguarding implementation. This is the first step of a journey that will enable your organisation to implement the best and most appropriate child safeguarding measures. https://www.keepingchildrensafe.global/your-self-assessment/ Who: Keeping Children Safe is an independent not-for-profit organisation who set out internationally recognised child safeguarding standards that ensure all organisations working directly for and with children have comprehensive safeguarding measures in place. Why: It is important to establish where an organisation is currently and how to strengthen your organisations safeguarding practices. During the self-assessment, you will be asked to think about four different aspects of your organisation. These are based on the four International Child Safeguarding Standards: policy, people, procedures and accountability. How it works: The self-assessment tool on this website consists of five sections, and takes about 30 minutes to complete. The results will be emailed to you with advice about actions you may need to take to ensure children are kept safe. | |
Oxfam Australia Child Safeguarding Toolkit | |
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PROJECT SAFEGUARDING RISK ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION PLAN - example templatePlease find here a Safeguarding Risk Assessment template, provided to us by Safeguarding CoP member - Christian Aid. Thanks guys! | |
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Safeguarding Online trainingsHere you can make a free account for the training site - DisasterReady.org - and explore a range of courses on the topic of Safeguarding and Protection among many other topics in the sector.
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Safeguarding Resource and Support HubWhat is the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub?The Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) aims to support organisations in the aid sector to strengthen their safeguarding policy and practice against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEAH). The Hub’s core offer is this online open-access platform bringing together quality assured guidance, tools, support and research on safeguarding, serving any organisation working in the international aid sector. However, smaller, local organisations in developing countries are the focus of the Hub’s offer as they tend to have less access to safeguarding resources than international organisations. RSH has launched this Online Hub – a one-stop shop for relevant and accessible safeguarding materials on June 1st 2020. | |
Safeguarding who? Unpacking a complex system in the pursuit of a real power shift
Presented by: ACFID’s (Australian Council for International Development) safeguarding community of practice at the Oceania Connect Conference 2020 In early 2018, the NGO community was rocked by scandals in the sector surrounding the abuse of vulnerable people. And even more recently, the DRC revelations, with multiple accounts of SEAH related incidents during the Ebola crisis response, were gut wrenching. Since early 2018, we have seen standards for safeguarding, donor and regulatory requirements at every level. With the best possible intentions we have created policy, process, system to meet every requirement. Our organisations are working tirelessly to educate staff, implement with partners, report to donors. And so, we must conclude we are succeeding. But, are we? The system emerging to support PSEA is now extremely complex, and ever-changing. Despite our best intentions, we’re wrapping in mystery and terminology a principle that should be very simple – keep the people we seek to serve safe, always. Critical to our success is to shift the power. Fundamental to our achievement of the SDGs is to recognise the power dynamics that not only create the circumstances where such abuses of power manifest. But this understanding must inform our framing of solutions and success too. Hosted by ACFID’s safeguarding community of practice, this panel will bring together technical experts, standard-setters and in-country partners to discuss our progress in PSEAH, the fundamental challenges within a complex system, and how we collectively find our way to the fundamentals we need to do better. | |
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The International Child Safeguarding StandardsThe safeguarding standardsThe first International Child Safeguarding Standards were launched in 2002 by a coalition of relief and international development agencies that later became known as Keeping Children Safe. The Standards represent a commitment by those working with and for children to ensure that their organisations “do no harm” and that they meet the responsibilities set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to protect children from all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the independent expert for the UN study on violence against children, acknowledged the importance of the KCS standards stating that ‘they offer an excellent opportunity not only for the improvement of the quality and professionalism of those working with children but most importantly, it will help to achieve a greater impact for children.’ Since the standards were first published, tens of thousands of organisations and professionals worldwide have implemented them. The increasing demand for this service reflects growing recognition by organisations that they have a responsibility, in all of their work, to keep children safe. What are the standards?The four globally recognised Keeping Children Safe standards are now used widely in all sectors to ensure best practice in child safeguarding, as well as better accountability to those who are using or benefiting from the services of an organisation. Each standard outlines the key elements that should be put in place to keep children safe and lists the requirements needed to meet these standards. | |
Training - SafeguardingFree training on Safeguarding through the platform Kaya While most NGO workers act compassionately and professionally, and would never abuse or harm children or adults in the communities in which we work, there are some staff, partners and volunteers who might. This course is designed to improve your safeguarding knowledge and help to prevent harm coming to those we seek to serve. | |
Training - Safeguarding Essentials - Scenario basedSafeguarding Essentials - free training through the platform Kaya An interactive, scenario-focused course that will build your understanding of what safeguarding is and its importance in the humanitarian and development sector. | |
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What is Safeguarding? An animationThis video, produced by the Resource and Support Nigeria hub, introduces key concepts and processes related to safeguarding. Broadly, safeguarding means preventing harm to people – and the environment – in the delivery of development and humanitarian assistance. To do this, organisations must focus on preventing and responding to issues that arise within their organisation as well as those that happen as a result of the organisations interaction with the community What is Safeguarding? An animation - https://nigeria.safeguardingsupporthub.org/multimedia/what-safeguarding-animation
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Writing a Child Safeguarding PolicyWriting a Child Safeguarding PolicyFind here a step by step guide to writing a child safeguarding policy A CHILD SAFEGUARDING POLICY COMMUNICATES AN AGENCIES COMMITMENT TO KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE. It makes clear to everyone – staff, communities, board members, volunteers and the public - that the agency aims to protect children from harm, abuse and exploitation. A Child Safeguarding Policy shows that an organisation is taking its duty of care seriously. Some tips to keep in mind while developing or updating your organisation’s Child Safeguarding Policy:
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