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
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
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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
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Standard 6: Equal rights of all children to protection
Activity 6.1: Action planning tool
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Standard 8: Education and training to keep children safe
Activity 8.1: Identification of priority training needs
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Standard 10: Implementing and monitoring of the standards
Activity 10.3: Child protection
implementation planner
Activity 10.3 Child protection implementation
tool for managers
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Standard 11: Working with partners to meet the standards
Activity 11.1: Partnership agreement form
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