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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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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. | |