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<div>Save the Children adopts safeguarding practices within our organization to ensure our employees, volunteers, partners, vendors, and other representatives do not deliberately or unintentionally harm or abuse children or adults in affected communities.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Child safeguarding is about making Save the Children safe for children. Child safeguarding refers to a set of policies, procedures and practices employed to make a business safe for all children they work with. 1</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>safeguarding policy</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/RsLa5CrZS3 </div><div></div><div></div><div>Safeguarding training is important to ensure that all staff at every level of the business feel empowered to protect children and report violations. By providing training, businesses will help to promote a culture where safeguarding concerns are taken seriously, reported and addressed.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Your safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures are an important part of protecting children and young people. They must be supported by good governance, health and safety, financial management, staff supervision and management.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Safeguarding and child protection procedures are detailed guidelines and instructions that support your overarching safeguarding policy statement. They explain the steps that your organisation will take to keep children and young people safe and what to do when there are concerns about a child's safety or wellbeing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>For example, your safeguarding procedures should cover issues like how staff and volunteers should respond to concerns about a child and young person and how you will make sure you recruit the right people to work with children and young people.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Your policy statement should be clear, concise and cover all the information listed below. Aim to keep it to two sides of A4 paper if possible, though you may need more space depending on your organisation's needs and context.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Be clear about who the policy applies to. It should cover all children under 18 but are all adults expected to comply with it? Should it just be staff and volunteers who work directly with children? What about those who have occasional contact with children such as a caretaker?</div><div></div><div></div><div>You need a set of more detailed policies and procedures which explain the steps adults within your organisation must take to keep children safe. Your policy statement should include a list of these. You can find more details about writing these policies and procedures on the "writing safeguarding policies" tab.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>When you have completed your overarching safeguarding and child protection policy statement, you need to ensure that all adults and children are aware of, understand and can access your safeguarding policies.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Your overarching safeguarding and child protection policy statement should refer to a set of more detailed policies and procedures. These procedures should outline the steps that must be taken if there are any concerns about a child's or young person's safety and wellbeing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Internal changes that may impact child safeguarding and child protection practices could include changes to personnel, organisational structure or size, who your organisation works with, or how you work with them.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Develop a plan to ensure that all relevant individuals within the organisation are aware of the updated policy and understand their roles and responsibilities. Training should be ongoing to ensure that all employees understand their responsibilities, recognise signs of abuse or neglect, and know how to respond appropriately.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Schedule regular reviews of the child safeguarding policies and procedures, typically at least once a year or whenever significant changes or a local incident occurs which highlights that a review is needed.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Working together to safeguard people: code of safeguarding practice sets out safeguarding expectations for all individuals, groups and organisations providing activities or services to children and adults in Wales (Welsh Government, 2022).</div><div></div><div></div><div>JSI and World Education, Inc. (JSI/WEI) is committed to keeping children safe. To do so, we have a zero-tolerance policy for any form of abuse, exploitation, or violence. We take every measure to prevent such incidents and to ensure compliance with U.S., host-country, and international child welfare and protection laws and standards.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Ethical practices at JSI/WEI are guided by the principle that work and business relationships be conducted with the highest level of honesty, integrity, diligence, fairness, trust, and respect. JSI/WEI safeguarding principles include:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Confidentiality: Confidentiality is fundamental to safeguarding, reporting, and investigation processes. We will maintain confidentiality during all stages of a safeguarding investigation, sharing information only on a need-to-know basis. Confidentiality breaches can have serious consequences for all involved in a safeguarding investigation and will result in disciplinary action.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Child awareness: We will ensure that children understand and are aware of child safeguarding and protection processes.</div><div></div><div>Children as participants in investigations: We will ensure that care is taken when children are involved in an investigation and that any investigative interview with a child be undertaken within best practice protocols (e.g., child-centered, child-paced, and conducted or guided by a suitably trained practitioner).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Any suspicion or allegation of a safeguarding violation by JSI/WEI staff, partners, contractors, vendors, or subrecipients must be reported within 24 hours to the JSI/WEI Code of Conduct Helpline. The reporter should then communicate the concern to the JSI/WEI Chief of Party/Project Director/Country Director (unless that person is implicated in the allegation). For US Offices, the report should be communicated to the Office Director.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Recognizing the special responsibility of protecting the privacy of a child and the confidentiality of the implicated person, JSI/WEI discourages communication about the details of child safeguarding concerns via e-mail unless absolutely necessary. If e-mail is necessary, subject headings should be vague and inoffensive, and must be flagged as confidential.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The JSI/WEI Chief of Party/Project Director/Country Director/Office Director should involve the designated safeguarding focal person in the incident response and management process. If a project does not have a safeguarding focal person, they should be in touch with US Human Resources.</div><div></div><div></div><div>If information about child safeguarding violations is disclosed by a child, whether or not the complaint is made by the child survivor themselves, the process of reporting and managing the incident will require additional age-appropriate steps and considerations. JSI/WEI staff or partners must keep in mind the age of the child or young person and do the following when receiving disclosures made by a child:</div><div></div><div></div><div>JSI/WEI will immediately initiate an investigation of any child safeguarding concern it becomes aware of. This investigation will follow our established policies and processes for all ethics/fraud incident reports. Additionally, for child safeguarding-related incidents, investigations will adhere to the following:</div><div></div><div></div><div>3. As with all ethics/fraud violations we investigate, reports of child abuse must be treated seriously and impartially, and appropriate confidentiality maintained. However, JSI/WEI reserves the right to disclose information to other organizations or authorities involving employees terminated on the basis of child safeguarding violations. JSI/WEI complies with funder requirements for reporting such violations.</div><div></div><div></div><div>All staff are required to sign a code of conduct that commits them to abide by JSI/WEI policies and procedures, including this policy and the standards of behavior included herein. Each new employee is oriented to HR policies and procedures, including the code of conduct (which is part of the employee handbook).</div><div></div><div></div><div>JSI/WEI will ensure compliance with child safeguarding standards through the procedures described and referenced throughout this policy and attached appendices. All JSI/WEI operations are subject to this policy and it will be enforced across all JSI/WEI locations and activities. JSI/WEI will take appropriate action against JSI/WEI employees found to have violated this policy, up to and including termination and referral to local authorities.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Within the United Kingdom, domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is the most commonly identified factor within child in need assessments, with rates increasing in recent years in addition to 'lockdown'-related spikes. This article examines the representation of DVA in local child safeguarding policies using Bacchi's (2009) 'What is the problem represented to be?' approach. Policies were collected from the websites of all the child safeguarding partnerships of England in July 2021. In total, we identified 59 policies. These policies are designed to guide local responses to DVA across services and thus have potential for substantial impact on practice across health and social care. Our results suggest that local DVA policy in England exists within a conceptual framework which spotlights the individual and lacks attention to their context. We argue that these policies focus on adults, neglecting attention to children within their own safeguarding policies. This is through children being peripheralized within the conceptualisation of 'victim' and the assessed adult risk being used as a proxy measure for the risk to child. Demographic discussions build an image of DVA as an issue that can affect anyone, but with little acknowledgement of the vulnerabilities facing proportions of the population and their complexities - when such vulnerabilities are discussed, they are individualised and viewed in absence of their societal causes, potentially eclipsing critical elements of a child's experience of DVA. The implications of our results are wide-ranging but suggest a need to refocus on children and their context within local DVA policy.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Safeguarding is an organization-wide responsibility to ensure that our people, programs, and practices respect the rights and dignity of the people with whom Global Communities comes in contact so that they can live free from abuse and harm. Safeguarding includes preventing sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH), safeguarding children, anti-trafficking, sexual harassment in the workplace, bullying, and discrimination.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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