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We are glad to welcome the Cambridge Centre for International Research (CCIR) to our global Members network.
This organisation was founded by Cambridge graduates with the goal of increasing access to leading researchers’ work and publications. Their goal is to support a generation of informed, critical thinkers.
They deliver fully online programmes to students between 13 and 18 years old, in over 50 countries, which presents a challenge: their safeguarding responsibilities are not limited by geography or time zone. About that, their representatives expressed: ‘We know that the online environment presents unique risks and we are committed to ensuring that every interaction a young person has with CCIR, with our staff, our mentors, and our platforms, are safe, purposeful and in their best interest’.
About the reason for joining the Members network, they highlight the ‘access to a global community of organisations that are genuinely committed to raising standards in child safeguarding’. CCIR also stated that ‘KCS’s International Child Safeguarding Standards give us a credible, externally recognised framework to work towards and that matters to us as an organisation that is growing and that takes its responsibilities to young people seriously’.
Their main goals for the coming year are embedding KCS Standards into their everyday operations and achieve a formal institutional accreditation. They aim to ‘be an organisation that other online providers look to as an example of how to do this well’.
Their message to our global community is powerful and aligned to their mission: ‘Safeguarding is not a box to tick. Every young person who joins one of our programmes deserves to feel safe, respected and supported. That is a responsibility every single person at CCIR shares, regardless of their role’.
KCS gives CCIR a warm welcome – we are glad to have them as part of this Network.