Child Safeguarding and Protection

Who the course is tailored for

This course is tailored for everyone who interacts with children at home, in school, church or any other social institution. Parents, siblings, relatives, caregivers, teachers, police, doctors, house helps, political and community leaders, church staff, pastors, priests, nuns and even children are candidates of this course.

Child abuse and neglect are two evils happening to children at an alarming rate especially during pandemics such as COVID 19 where the numbers of violated children swell to unimaginable levels. Therefore, everyone in any place where children are found - home, learning institutions or even places of work where children are found (where staff houses or homes are in the same compound with offices such as refugee camps, plantations etc) need to acquire knowledge and skills about child safeguarding and protection.

Expected learning outcome

By the end of the course, the learners should be able to differentiate between child safeguarding and child protection; notice common signs of abuse in children, listen to children and take action when they complain of abuse or neglect, give the children a voice - to be able to say no to abuse, to support child victims of abuse by following due process, learn about child rights ensure they advocate for the development of child rights policies in every place/ institutions where children frequent.

Duration

5 days Online

The course will cover 35 hours of training.

Mode of study

This course will be taught Online/ Virtual.

Key Topics

• Meaning of key Terms: Child, Safeguarding & Protection
• Who is a child? Different Concepts of an African Child: Kenya, other countries in Africa
• UN concept of a child (Globally accepted)
• Benefits of child safeguarding and protection
• Child Abuse & neglect, Forms of Abuse, Situations of children today
• Possible solutions of child abuse
• Home and child safety
• Human Growth and Development: Child Development Patterns
• Child Rights, categories of child rights
• Sources of Laws on Child Safeguarding & Protection
• Case Management of Child Abuse, players in the process of case management
• Benefits of Case Management
• Child Safeguarding in organizations
• Keeping organizations safe places for children
• Development of Child Safeguarding work policies, process of policy development
• Child participation in child Safeguarding and protection
• Self-care for Child Safeguarding and safety practitioners