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We are honoured to recognise Janet Aguti, Founder and Director of the Totya Platform, as the Child Safeguarding Champion of the Year. Janet has transformed her personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse into a powerful force for change, working to increase awareness and put real help into action to protect children in her […]

We are pleased to announce that the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is now part of the KCS’s Members Network!  PWC is an organisation that works to empower indigenous pastoralist women and girls from the Maasai, Sonjo, Akie, Barabaig, Tatoga and Hadzabe communities in Africa. Their programmes are designed to achieve lasting and sustainable impact across

Image: SOS Children’s Villages Spain Recently, SOS Children’s Villages Spain renewed its KCS Level 1 Certification. For this article, we spoke with Concha Maldonado Calvo, National Child Safeguarding Focal Point and Maria del Mar Líndez Líndez, member of the Management group. Both shared how the audit and certification process not only strengthened good practices among

Image: Pexels We are proud to welcome the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR), a distinguished child rights organisation founded in 1994, as the newest member of the KCS Network. With three decades of experience, the organisation has worked to strengthen justice and protection systems for children and to transform the way children are valued

Image: Aralma We are pleased to announce that Aralma has joined the KCS member network. With an intersectional, gender-sensitive and rights-based approach, Aralma has been working for over twenty years in Argentina, to defend the rights of children and adult survivors/victims of violence in their childhood.  For Aralma, ‘child safeguarding is not just a goal;

Kemonik works with children who are survivors/victims of abuse. With a clear focus on placing children’s safety at the heart of their work, they have taken the step of joining the KCS network to exchange knowledge with other organisations in the field and advance their child safeguarding practices. ‘Protecting children is our top priority’, stated

In this month’s Members Spotlight, we are happy to shine a light on our growing network in Brazil.    This time we want to introduce Pavement Project (Projeto Calçada), a team dedicated to responding to the traumas experienced by at-risk children and teenagers around the world.   Pavement Project’s Global Director Clenir Santos highlights the importance of

At the start of the new financial year, we want to share what the KCS team has been up to these past months. Read on to find some highlights and achievements we are proud of, as we continue to work to strengthen child safeguarding practices around the world.  Expanding our reach Between 2024 and the beginning

PEAS is a not-for-profit organisation, focusing on expanding education opportunities to those that need them the most. They built and currently run a network of 38 secondary schools in rural areas of Uganda and Zambia. PEAS also works with governments to support another 300+ schools across Uganda, Zambia and Ghana.  Today, we want to highlight

Keeping Children Safe (KCS), a leading international organisation in Child Safeguarding, and the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN), an international organisation dedicated to the development of public policies on children’s rights in the Americas, have signed a strategic agreement to enhance their collaboration and strengthen child safeguarding frameworks in the region.   Both organisations have collaborated since

We are thrilled to share our 2025 – 2026 webinar timetable, designed to support organisations and independent practitioners in strengthening their child safeguarding skills. We are offering this series of expert-led webinars covering critical and current safeguarding topics as a way to reinforce our commitment to child protection.  These activities are exclusive for our KCS