SCHK’S APPROACH
SIX COMPONENTS FOR SAFER POLICY AND PRACTICE
SCHK’s Key Child Safeguarding Components
Our framework highlights the key elements that every child-facing organisation must have in place across its policies and practices. Child Safeguarding is not one-size-fits-all. Organisations should consider their unique operations and contact with children when creating protocols across these 6 areas.
BEHAVIOURAL STANDARDS
The boundaries that ensure safe and appropriate contact between children and the organisation’s representatives.
RECRUITING & TRAINING:
The steps taken to ensure that the organisation only recruits individuals who are suited to work with children, and builds their knowledge on their responsibility to keep children safe.
SAFE PROGRAMMING:
The measures that ensure all of the organisation’s services are designed, delivered, and monitored using a child-safety perspective of ‘do no harm’.
The measures that ensure all of the organisation’s services are designed, delivered, and monitored using a child-safety perspective of ‘do no harm’.
BEHAVIOURAL
STANDARDS
STANDARDS
RECRUITING &
TRAINING
TRAINING
SAFE
PROGRAMMING
PROGRAMMING
REPORTING &
RESPONSE
RESPONSE
DATA
PROTECTION
PROTECTION
MONITORING &
ACCOUNTABILITY
ACCOUNTABILITY
REPORTING & RESPONSE:
The systems that ensure all child-safety concerns are appropriately reported and handled, in a manner that prioritises the best interests of the child.
The systems that ensure all child-safety concerns are appropriately reported and handled, in a manner that prioritises the best interests of the child.
DATA PROTECTION:
The processes that ensure all children’s data, as well as sensitive and personal information, is obtained, handled, shared, and secured respectfully, professionally, and safely.
The processes that ensure all children’s data, as well as sensitive and personal information, is obtained, handled, shared, and secured respectfully, professionally, and safely.
MONITORING & ACCOUNTABILITY:
The mechanisms that ensure the organisation’s policies and procedures are effective, and that the organisation has a strong child safeguarding culture.
The mechanisms that ensure the organisation’s policies and procedures are effective, and that the organisation has a strong child safeguarding culture.