Download the PDF: How to implement the standards* (1.6mb | 93 pages)

Below you will also find individual exercises and materials that support implementation

Phase One: Getting a picture of your organisation

Activity 1.3: The Self-Audit Tool
Activity 1.4: Risk Assessment Form
Activity 1.5: Stakeholder Analysis

Phase Two: Meeting the standards - how to do it

Standards 1 and 2:
A written policy on keeping children safe and putting the policy into practice

Activity 2.4: Case scenarios
Activity 2.4: Responding to a child protection concern
Handout 3.5: What to do if someone tells you they have been abused
Sample reporting flow chart
Sample reporting incidence form
Model complaints referral
Investigation planning tool

Standard 3: Preventing harm to children

Step 1: Recruitment and selection of staff

Activity 3.1: Recruitment table
Activity 3.1: Checklist
Sample child protection declaration form
Police background check and exemption form
Sample child protection character reference form

Step 3: Preventing harm to children and safe activities

Parental consent form

Preventing harm to children in programmes or projects

A checklist for keeping children safe in different programme areas
Activity 3.5: Monitoring and evaluation

Preventing harm to children in child sponsorship

Keeping children safe in child sponsorship
Appendix 1: An example of an agreement between UK based agencies on Common Standards for Child Protection in Sponsorship
Appendix 2: Example of agency explanation about child protection to sponsor at beginning of sponsorship
Appendix 3: Example of a sponsorship monitoring form
Appendix 4: Example of an organisation’s policy on use of visual images
Appendix 5: Example of a consent form for children and parents/carers on use of images
Appendix 6: Example of how a request for a police check can be initiated
Appendix 7: Example of Child Protection Interview Questions for Sponsors
Appendix 8: Mini self-audit web for child sponsorship

Preventing harm - keeping children safe in emergencies

Activity 3.7: Emergencies - being prepared
Guiding principles of best practice in a disaster situation

Standard 4: Written guidelines on behaviour towards children

Activity 4.1: Sample code of conduct -Terre des homme
Activity 4.1: Sample code of conduct - Tearfund

Standard 5: Meeting the standards in different locations

Activity 5.2: Checklist for gathering local information
Activity 5.2: Blank flow chart
Activity 5.3: Case scenarios

Standard 6: Equal rights of all children to protection

Activity 6.1: Action planning tool

Standard 8: Education and training to keep children safe

Activity 8.1: Identification of priority training needs

Standard 10: Implementing and monitoring of the standards

Activity 10.3: Child protection implementation planner
Activity 10.3 Child protection implementation tool for managers

Standard 11: Working with partners to meet the standards

Activity 11.1: Partnership agreement form

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