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Developing child safeguarding policy and procedures
A facilitator's guide for workshops that help organisations write or strengthen a child safeguarding policy and procedures. 4 sessions cover risk and mitigation, drafting or strengthening a policy, implementation, and roles and responsibilities. Exercises include a risk assessment, a SWOT analysis, a self-assessment against the Keeping Children Safe Standards, designing a reporting procedure and mapping local resources. An appendix gives notes on planning and running a learning event.
CurrentTool or templateFree - 11.2C147
The International Child Safeguarding Standards
A set of 4 standards that describe what an organisation needs in place to protect children from harm caused by its staff, activities, operations and partners. The standards cover policy, people, procedures and accountability, and list requirements under each. 5 guiding principles frame them, including shared responsibility and the best interests of the child. Organisations, donors and auditors use them to build and check safeguarding policies.
CurrentKey manual or guideFree - 5.4C074
Understanding effective safeguarding culture
A discussion tool from Bond, the UK network for international development organisations, for talking about what a positive safeguarding culture looks like. It describes behaviours that show whether a culture follows good safeguarding practice across 6 areas: policies and procedures, safer programming, a survivor-centred approach, awareness raising, safer recruitment and reporting. Staff at all levels use it in workshops, alongside a separate Bond tool for leaders.
CurrentTool or templateFree - 11.1C142
Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders
A manual from Protection International that gives human rights defenders knowledge and tools for security and protection. It sets out a method for defenders to assess their own risk and to define security rules and procedures that fit their situation. The content draws on more than 25 years of staff experience and has been tested in protection work and training workshops. Trainers use it to run security and protection courses.
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