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Child Protection

Children have an absolute right to be safe. Yet girls and boys in every country, in every culture and at every social level face forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. These violations include sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, physical and humiliating punishment, harmful traditional practices (including early marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting) and recruitment into armed forces and groups.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), other human rights conventions, treaties, and national laws, governments have a legal obligation to protect children. But all adults share a responsibility to do so. Parents are primarily responsible for the upbringing and development of their children and, together with their family and community, have a key role to play in protecting them.

In May 2009, Save the Children launched the Global Child Protection Initiative (Now Child Protection Global Theme) to strengthen children’s right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.

Photo: Hedinn Halldorsson/Save the Children

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Fact Sheet- Child Protection

A fact sheet looking at several aspects of child protection and the needs and priorities of vulnerable children. Children in every country, every culture and at every social level face various forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. The abuse

Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International
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Fact Sheet- Child Protection in Emergencies

Save the Children’s Child Protection Initiative (CPI) fact sheet about "Child Protection in Emergencies" looks at the the main protection dangers that children face in an emergency and how to address them. During emergencies, children run many risks. They

Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International
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Save the Children's Child Protection Video

The Child Protection Initiative has produced an animated video that communicates Save the Children's child protection work and the impact on children's lives as seen by children. "Violence against children is no longer tolerated" is the new Global Breakth

Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children
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Fact sheet- Children without appropriate care

A Save the Children fact sheet looking at key aspects of child protection with special focus on the sub-theme "children without appropriate care", which encompasses children who are not receiving suitable, continuous and quality care, nurture and guidance

Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International
Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing

Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Melin, Mie | Terlonge, Pernille
A Catalogue of Common Approaches: Delivering our best work for children

This catalogue showcases the common approaches that Save the Children currently has and those that are in the pipeline for 2018. Each approach addresses a particular problem – such as how to help children read and write; how to keep them safe in their own

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children
Horn of Africa One Year On Report: Helping children and their families survive the gripping impact of the drought in 2017

The Horn of Africa has been grappling with the effects of consecutive failed rains across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia that led to 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance at the start of 2017. Save the Children’s response over the past year

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children
Ending Violence in Childhood: Global Report 2017

This report makes a case for ending the wide-ranging violence against children occurring across the world. It is a publication from an independent global learning initiative, Know Violence in Childhood. The project, like the Violence Against Children Stud

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Know Violence in Childhood
Trainingshandbuch zur Psychologischen Ersten Hilfe für Kinder (PFA)

Published 2017, the German version of the Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) is a condensed psychological first aid training based on the original two-day Psychological First Aid Training for Child Practitioners. It buil

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Germany Author(s): Øllgaard, Rosa Marie | Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Terlonge, Pernille
PFA One Day Programme Manual

Published 2017, the PFA one day programme manual is a condensed psychological first aid training based on the original two-day Psychological First Aid Training for Child Practitioners. It builds on adaptations of this manual in Japan, Denmark, Germany and

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Øllgaard, Rosa Marie
PFA II: Dealing With Traumatic Responses in Children

The PFA II, Dealing with traumatic responses in children manual provides guidance for staff working with children who are severely affected psychologically by acute crisis. It is not a clinical tool and does not in itself qualify staff to engage in clinic

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Øllgaard, Rosa Marie
Stop Hitting! Banning all Corporal Punishment of Children: Questions and answers for children and young people

This is one of three booklets produced by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment with support from Save the Children Sweden. These booklets should give parents and carers, government officials, education professionals and others the confiden

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children