keepchildsafe: Great planning meeting today for child safeguarding workshop at Beyond Sport summit http://t.co/UPcPbl7I @unicef_uk, @BeyondSport @NSPCC
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keepchildsafe: Welcome to two new members - Casa Alianza @CasaAlianzaUK and Congolese NGO - ADED. Looking forward to working with you.
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keepchildsafe: New course on child participation in child safeguarding running in Delhi in October. Book now.. http://t.co/guIDFr8U
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History

2012

Keeping Children Safe undertakes training in five further countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda) for USAID Aidstar-One programme

Keeping Children Safe celebrates it's 10th anniversary - 18 April 2012

Keeping Children Safe publishes new update toolkit with resources on child participation in child protection.

2011

Keeping Children Safe undertakes training in five countries (South Africa, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Nigeria and Lesotho) for USAID Aidstar- One programme 

Toolkit launched in Arabic in Beirut, Lebanon with Terre des Hommes and Keeping Children Safe

Keeping Children Safe joins the UNICEF Child Protection Working Group

Keeping Children Safe registered as a UK charity

Alex Dressler joins as Consultancy and Training Manager and Sally Warren joins as Communications and Advocacy Manager

Keeping Children Safe and Handicap International hold trainings in Madagascar

Keeping Children Safe hold course on child participation in child protection with Child-to-Child Trust. 

2010

March 2010 - Corinne Davey appointed Director of Keeping Children Safe

New governance arrangements put in place including Board of Trustees and new membership arrangements

2009

New three year strategy developed and funding secured

2008

Keeping Children Safe standards adopted by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department

SOS International hold training session at their headquarters in Innsbruck

Follow up to regional trainings in West Africa in Senegal and Sierra Leone

Trainings in East Africa in collaboration with Everychild and ACPF (funded by Oak) - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia

Terre des Homme and Keeping Children Safe trainings in Indonesia and Nigeria

2007

Regional training workshops help in Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria

Terre des Hommes Foundation Switzerland organised two training sessions for organisations in Latin America in Lima, Peru

Keeping Children Safe standards adopted by Department for International Development (DFID) as a condition of the Civil Society Challenge Fund

2006

Keeping Children Safe toolkit launched by Professor Paulo Pinheiro, the Independent Expert for the UN Study on Violence Against Children and by Mr. Juan Miguel Petit, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

2001

Keeping Children Safe established in response to incidences of abuse and exploitation of children that were arising as a result of organisations work with vulnerable communities