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Keeping children safe

A toolkit for child protection

The NSPCC, Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision, Tearfund, Everychild, Plan, Terre des Hommes, People In Aid and the Consortium for Street Children have come together to launch Keeping Children Safe: a toolkit for child protection.

The Keeping Children Safe toolkit marries the NSPCC's child protection training knowledge with international aid and development expertise to help relief and other agencies reach global standards in child protection. These standards require organisations to draft and implement child protection procedures to help their staff recognise and respond appropriately to signs of child abuse.

Keeping Children Safe includes a training pack and DVD featuring a series of exercises devised to help people overcome common cultural and political misconceptions about abuse. Structured activities help people to develop written policies and procedures relevant to their organisation.

The toolkit also contains additional workshop materials that are targeted at staff with particular roles, for example, management, emergency relief, child sponsorship and programming.

Keeping Children Safe will help agencies to:

recruit staff safely
deter, detect and respond to abuse
increase staff confidence through training to deal with child abuse concerns as they arise
keep children safe beyond agency boundaries
integrate child protection into all areas of the operation.

The Keeping Children Safe toolkit includes:

Keeping children safe: tool 1 - standards for child protection (PDF, 1.5MB) .A book which explains what the basic standards should be for all organisations working in child protection across the world
Keeping children safe: tool 2 - how to implement the standards (PDF, 3.4MB) . A resource pack that provides guidance and activities to help you and your organisation meet those standards
Keeping children safe: tool 3 - training for child protection (PDF, 3.9MB) . A pack of flexible training exercises and materials to help you and your organisation train staff to meet the standards
Tool 4 - a DVD to support and help with training
Tool 5 - a CD-ROM to support and help with training and implementation of standards. The CD Rom contains all the training materials, trainer notes, exercises, activities, sample forms and templates.

For further information about the Keeping Children Safe toolkit, please visit www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk or email publications@keepingchildrensafe.org.uk