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Your Organisation’s Contact with Children and How Well You Deal with Child Protection Issues

Your Organisation’s Contact with Children and How Well You Deal with Child Protection Issues. Child-Safe Organisations (Date) (Place).

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Your Organisation’s Contact with Children and How Well You Deal with Child Protection Issues

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  1. Your Organisation’s Contact with Children and How Well You Deal with Child Protection Issues Child-Safe Organisations (Date) (Place)

  2. “I can tell you now, that many organisations – especially those that do not work directly with children – do not believe the [child protection] standards are relevant to them because of many factors. I disagree, and believe that every organisation (whether they work directly or indirectly with children, whether they are funding or being funded) must take responsibility for child protection.”- Setting the Standard

  3. You can never tell where, when and how child abuse will happen Organisations have a responsibility to care for and to protect children Therefore, there is a need to create a child protection system – a ‘buffer’ to reduce the possibility of child abuse happening within an organisation or community Revisit Module 1

  4. Assess the nature of contacts between organisational staff and children Identify the risks of child abuse (or false allegations) happening within our own organisations Think about our responsibility to deal with risks, the child protection mechanisms we have in place and how we can improve them, and what we already do well – the first step in creating a child protection system In Module 2, we will …

  5. The Circle of Interactions (6) Yui, Accountant (5) Lynne, Programme Manager (4) Nok, Sponsor Relations Officer (3) Kree-ta, Water Sanitation Coordinator (2) Yot, Children’s Camp Facilitator (1) Chaiwat, Psychologist

  6. Humanitarian workers interact with children in many different ways, all of which have wide-ranging potential impacts on children

  7. Different types of contact include:

  8. Risk FactorsGoal: For organisations to assess possible child protection risks in their practice

  9. Activity: Taking care of a child or children in a children’s centre

  10. When determining potential harm, the following factors should be taken into account: Risk Factors • Who else is around? (supervision) • When? (time) • Where? (location) • How? (nature of contact)

  11. Bottom Line! Open and Aware Culture Be open and communicate with other people about what you do. Always be conscious of your own actions, and avoid putting yourself in a situation that can be misunderstood or leave room for risks to occur.

  12. Riskmeans the potential for something to go wrong

  13. A risk assessmentis a means of identifying the potential for something to happen that will have an impact on children, your staff, organisational objectives and reputation

  14. Risk managementmeans identifying the potential for an accident or incident to occur and taking steps to reduce the possibility of it occurring

  15. Weather Forecast

  16. Child in a House

  17. Staff with bad intentions can exploit or abuse children Staff with good intentions may face false allegations An organisation may face: What are child protection risks within an organisation? • Prosecution or lawsuit • False accusation • Media damage • Loss of respect from the public • Increasing scrutiny by donors and partners

  18. Nature of risks Triangle of Consequences Likelihood Severity

  19. Nature of risks = light shower in raining season Consequence = won’t kill you! Likelihood = often Severity = mild

  20. Nature of risks = snow storm in winter

  21. In considering the consequences, it is important that you consider all the factors that are in play. This also helps us to prioritise our interventions.

  22. What are the child protection risks in this scenario? Why? How serious? Why? How likely is it to happen (in your organisation)? Why? What should be done? Why? Child Protection Scenarios

  23. Scenario:You listen to the weather forecast on the radiojust before you go out for an appointmentRisk:There could be heavy rain

  24. Scenario:The door is open while a baby is left unattendedRisk:The baby may crawl out of the house and get hurt

  25. Recruitment, employment and volunteers Education and training Professional code of conduct Reporting mechanism (for concerns / cases) and referral Access by external visitors and communications Policy and procedures 6 Organisational Child Protection Areas

  26. Whisper Down the Lane

  27. “It is important to distinguish what is understood as general practice and what is written down as guidelines, policies or procedures. Where procedures are not written down there is a danger that practice will be inconsistent, non-transparent and subject to misinterpretation. The organisation is also at risk of losing knowledge and expertise when people leave the organisation.”- Child Hope UK

  28. The Grid of Good Practices

  29. The Grid of Good Practices(full version)

  30. In writing (formalisation) Shared with staff Put into practice It is essential that policy and procedures are:

  31. The best interests of children Policy as a harm-minimisation strategy Responsibility (ownership) Most importantly, please consider:

  32. The Office Plant

  33. For more information on Child-Safe Organisations,please contact: Host organisation

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