Each day during International Child Safeguarding Week will focus on different practical aspects of child safeguarding tailored to various functional areas within organisations. Day 4 is about how to create safeguarding resources adapted to all ages, cultures and levels of understanding.
Live events
Playful child-safeguarding materials for children
Round table with Clenir Santos from Projeto Calçada (Brazil) and independent professional Esther Kumar (Brazil, India).
The language of this event is Portuguese.
Videos
Child safeguarding policy for everyone
SOS Children’s Villages (Italy)
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The language of this video is English.
Using poems and art to raise awareness
Peace Matunda (Tanzania)
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The language of this video is English.
Spanish subtitles available.
Developing a culturally-sensitive manual
Esther Kumar (Brazil, India)
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The language of this video is Portuguese.
English subtitles available.
Available with Spanish subtitles here.
Articles
Defend Yourself Campaign
In this article, you will find resources developed by Centro de Defesa (Brazil) to promote self-defence among children.
Child participation in child safeguarding
Read this article to find out more about how SOS Children’s Villages‘ (Spain) team and children developed a character and comics to explain their child safeguarding policy.
Child-friendly games about child safeguarding
Asmae-Association Sœur Emmanuelle (Madagascar) developed two child-friendly, participatory and educational tools, learn more about them and see them in action in this article with videos.
Safeguarding standards and monitoring tool
In this article you will learn about PEAS‘s (Uganda, Zambia, Ghana) child-centred approaches and their child safeguarding monitoring tool.
United Nations resources to inform and empower children
The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (Global) has developed a series of materials to help children understand issues related to child abuse.
Safeguarding manuals
Independent practitioner Terezinha Candieiro (Brazil), shares the manuals that have been created for a confessional primary school program.
Resources
Guidelines for developing child-friendly resources
By the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (Global)
The International Child Safeguarding Standards for children and young people
By Keeping Children Safe
Lesson plan: Doing my part to make rising EPIC
By Rising Academies (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda)
Child-friendly policy
By SOS Children’s Villages (Italy)
Child-friendly manual
By Esther Kumar (Brazil, India)
Child safeguarding monitoring tool
By PEAS (Uganda, Zambia, Ghana)
Lesson plan: our safe school
By Rising Academies (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda)
Let children be children eBook
By Pavement Project (Brazil)