Safeguarding: Manuals & Toolkits

Provides definitions on:
What is safeguarding?
What is child protection?
What is the difference between safeguarding and protection?
What is safe recruitment?
What is the difference between a Self-declaration Form and an Acceptance Form?
What is a definition of a child?
What is a definition of a vulnerable adult?
What does child abuse mean?
What is sexual abuse?
What is Sex Exploitation?
What is Child Sex exploitation (CSE)?

Year: 2021
Organisation: Society of Jesus - Promotion of a Consistent Culture of Protection (PCCP) Project
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Provides answers to some common questions:
Who has responsibility for safeguarding?
What are the principles of safeguarding?
What is a safeguarding policy?
What is a PSEA Policy?
What is a Safeguarding Audit?
What is the difference between an allegation and a concern?
Why should allegations of abuse be reported?
What does mandatory reporting mean?
What is a risk assessment?

Year: 2021
Organisation: Society of Jesus- Promotion of a Consistent Culture of Protection (PCCP) Project
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

This storybook is intended for children aged 4 and up who have suffered trauma and a difficult life situation. It is the story of a doll who faces a terrible wind that blows her life apart. She is taken by a wise bird to the forest where the trees tell her a secret. “Bad things happen, they just do, but you are still you.” They teach her to listen in a new way that gives her strength and perspective.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Sweden
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts.

Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in different settings, such as torture rehabilitation services, refugee camps, and reception centres. The voices of participants demonstrate the variety, creativity, and value of group and community approaches for recovery. The editors have gathered chapters into three sections covering: community-based approaches; groups that work through the medium of "body and soul"; and group approaches that focus on change through the spoken word.

The book will be relevant to those working in rehabilitation, community, mental health, and humanitarian fields and are interested in using groupwork as part of their services.

Free to download on Open Access made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Free to read online https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003192978/groupwork-refugees-survivors-human-rights-abuses-robin-ewart-biggs-jude-boyles-kirsten-lamb-rebecca-horn
GBP£29.99 paperback available to buy at https://www.routledge.com/Groupwork-with-Refugees-and-Survivors-of-Human-Rights-Abuses-The-Power/Boyles-Ewart-Biggs-Horn-Lamb/p/book/9781032043883?

Year: 2022
Organisation: Edited By Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn, Kirsten Lamb
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Child Friendly handbook for raising undestanding among children and young people on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the rights of the Child on a Communications Procedures. Part of the UN campaign Zero Violence Against Children b

Organisation: UNICEF
Country/Region: International
Langage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bosnia, Nepali, Turkish, Polish
Cost: Free

Child Friendly handbook for raising undestanding among children and young people on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. Part of the UN campaign Zero Violence Against Children by 2030

Organisation: UNICEF
Country/Region: International
Langage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bosnia, Nepali, Turkish, Polish, Greek
Cost: Free

Package of 5 components for people working in child protection across the world. The standards and exercises provide a basis for the development of effective measures to prevent and respond to violence: from awareness raising strategies to safeguarding measures.

Year: 2011
Organisation: Keeping Children Safe
Country/Region: International
Langage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Cost: Free

Package of 3 components for people working in child protection across the world. The standards and exercises provide a basis for the development of effective measures to prevent and respond to violence: from awareness raising strategies to safeguarding measures.

Year: 2007
Organisation: Keeping Children Safe
Country/Region: International
Langage: Arabic
Cost: Free

Package of 4 components for people working in child protection across the world. The standards and exercises provide a basis for the development of effective measures to prevent and respond to violence: from awareness raising strategies to safeguarding measures.

Year: 2007
Organisation: Keeping Children Safe
Country/Region: Nepal
Langage: Nepali
Cost: Free

Provides guidance for an in-depth 5-day protection course, as well as a 1-day refresher course. It includes useful tools and techniques for facilitation, as well as detailed training modules with key learning points, lesson plans and interactive exercises. This document may be easily adapted to country-specific legal frameworks, and is thus globally relevant. This guide to child protection serves as part of an awareness raising effort to identify and address issues of child protection in education in South Sudan.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Country/Region: South Sudan
Langage: English
Cost: Free

The Toolkit consists of four sections: facilitating, training, learning, and management.

Year: 2021
Organisation: Child Resilience Alliance
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

This companion guide be read online, or by downloading the pdf.

Year: 2021
Organisation: Child Resilience Alliance
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Provides a guide with useful inter-active modules that address what protection is, the types of abuse and how to prevent, identify and respond to them, and an overview of national and international protection in terms of legislation. This document may be easily adapted to country-specific legal frameworks, and is thus globally relevant.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Country/Region: South Sudan
Langage: English
Cost: Free

A stand alone module to raise awareness and build positive behaviour and discipline. It serves as an example tool for teachers. Training tool for teachers.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Finland
Country/Region: India
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Provides a summary of the key actions necessary for addressing MHM during emergencies. It looks at:
- training staff on MHM
- conducting a needs assessemnt
- providing MHM materials and supplies
- MHM and transit
- MHM and shelter
- MHM and Water and Sanitation Facilities
- MHM Disposal and Waste Managemnet
- MHM and Hygiene Promotion & Health Education Activities
- MHM and Vulnerable Populations
- MHM and Education, Health, Protection

Year: 2017
Organisation: Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

It provides guidance for teachers on how to teach a controversial topic in class, gives them ideas for extra-curricular activities, ideas for organizing anti-trafficking actions in school, and has accompanying material on children affected by this pheno

Year: 2011
Organisation: ASTRA, Save the Children Norway
Country/Region: Serbia
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Participatory method to monitor the status of a community based organization over time. It aims to promote reflection, analysis, sharing, dialogue and action planning which was successful in Nepal.

Year: 2005
Organisation: International Save the Children Alliance
Country/Region: Nepal
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Tool for children to learn more about protection and their rights.

Year: 2006
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Kurdistan
Langage: English, Spanish, Arabic, Kurdish
Cost: Free

Tools that aim to build a capacity of organizations that work with boys and men to end violence. The tools have been compiled in order to enable practitioners to add value to their current interventions by adapting them to their context.

Year: 2006
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: India and Bangladesh
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Provides sessions for a half day workshop:
- to identify children's behaviour which is challenging to adults;
- to identify the techniques adults use to control challenging behaviour;
- to identify ways adults can reinforce positive behaviour in children.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Syria
Langage: Arabic
Cost: Free

This manual sets out the foundations and principles of positive discipline in the classroom. Exercises are provided to help teachers put these principles into practice across a wide range of situations.

Year: 2010
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Ethiopia
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Provides good practice for teachers and school management teams to encourage a culture in which bullying is less likely to occur. Positive changes in school anti-bullying policy, together with the ongoing development of better professional practice and peer support

Year: 2010
Organisation: Save the Children Ireland
Country/Region: Ireland
Langage: English
Cost: Free

The manual outlines the steps to create a model for child-friendly schools, involving children and parents - a 'child-leads-child friendly schools' process in which children are involved in defining what is child friendly and what is required to make the school more friendly. Not exclusively for teachers.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Finland
Country/Region: India
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Guide to give parents, care givers and kindergarten teachers ideas for creative play and ways of supporting the development of young children

Year: 2006
Organisation: International Save the Children Alliance
Country/Region: Occupied Palestinian Territory
Langage: English, Arabic
Cost: Free

Targets trainers in facilitating groups in order to:
• Increase awareness of the importance of sex and promote reproductive education for children and adolescents by linking it to the rights of the child;
• Provide the necessary knowledge to enhance the safety of sexual and reproductive health;
• Enhance positive attitudes and sound skills related to sexual and reproductive health.

Year: 2012
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Lebanon
Langage: Arabic
Cost: Free

This is a card with a prayer of healing for victims of abuse

Year: 2014
Organisation: US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English
Cost: US$3.50

Workshop report presents an understanding of child development and psychology in relation to the negative impact of the physical and humiliating punishment of children. The report captures positive discipline techniques that can be used to train others in three settings: family, schools and institution. Not only for teachers

Year: 2005
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: South & Central Asia
Langage: English
Cost: Free

The module aims to help psycho-social programme administrators and trainers to give training to their staff in understanding how disasters affect children and adults, how people cope with the emotional effects of disasters and how one can facilitate a community's natural recovery process. It targets teacher trainers.

Year: 2006
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Country/Region: Pakistan
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Guide to recognize violence and how to respond to it to protect the child. For teachers and all adults that come close to children.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: South-Central Asia, Nepal
Langage: English
Cost: Free

It is a supporting resource that can be used to refine the capabilities and talents of teachers and students in art courses in schools. It was developed by Sakakini Cultural Center (KSCC), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Ford Foundation, Save the Children Sweden, Ministry of Education and HigherEducation

Year: 2009
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: Middle East, Palestine, OPT, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel
Langage: Arabic, English
Cost: Free

Book based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Year: 2009
Organisation: Save the Children Australia
Country/Region: Australia
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Book on how to encourage child participation - it offers information, strategies and didactic activities that could be done by the teacher both in the classroom and outside of it. It was done with the support of UNICEF. It mainly targets children between the ages of 9 and 16.

Year: 2003
Organisation: Save the Children Spain
Country/Region: Spain
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Introduces children and adolescents to their rights with captivating designs and texts for a wide range of ages. There are four versions, 1 for children between the ages of 6 and 8, one for those between the ages of 9 and 11 and one for those between the ages of 12 and 15

Year: 2009
Organisation: Save the Children Spain
Country/Region: Spain
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Manual on how to enforce the International Right of Protection when boys and girls cross the border to run away from extreme situations.

Year: 2010
Organisation: Save the Children Spain
Country/Region: Spain
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Book provides information on discrimination, why it happens and how it affects children. Children 7 years and older can learn about the types of discrimination that they may face and the many forms of discrimination that other children have to face throughout the world. It also gives children information on what children all over the world are doing to stop discrimination.

Year: 2008
Organisation: Save the Children Sweden
Country/Region: International
Langage: English, Arabic
Cost: Free

2-page flyer lists essential information to alert potential child victims of trafficking and exploitation. It provides several tell-tale signs to detect possible trafficking, and offers information on how victims may protect themselves from any form of exploitation.

Year: 2010
Organisation: Save the Children Spain, Portugal
Country/Region: Portugal
Langage: Portuguese
Cost: Free

Underlines some points on how to detect possible cases of children and adolescent trafficking as soon as possible.

Year: 2009
Organisation: Save the Children Spain
Country/Region: Spain
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Manual intended for professionals, so that they can contribute to both the theoretical structure and the practical approach in order to prevent and detect as soon as possible child abuse situations.

Year: 2007
Organisation: Save the Children Spain
Country/Region: Spain
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Manual to prevent physical punishment towards children.

Year: 2007
Organisation: Save the Children Spain, Sweden
Country/Region: Costa Rica
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

Publication about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) through words, illustrations, activities and games. THE CRC is illustrated for children and girls in primary schools.

Year: 2012
Organisation: Save the Children Italy
Country/Region: Italy
Langage: Italian
Cost: Free

A guide to get involved in protecting the rights of children and how you can make your home, your neighbourhood, place of work and everyday surroundings a safe early childhood environment. It describes how children, families, play schools, communities and other institutions can establish a real and long-lasting “culture of protection"

Year: 2010
Organisation: Save the Children Canada
Country/Region: Colombia
Langage: Spanish
Cost: Free

The toolkit has four interrelated objectives that address:
- Development of a collective vision for the school
- Creation of a nurturing learning environment
- Implementation of a more progressive learning methodology
- Strengthening school governance
The Toolkit is designed to be systematic and child-friendly in its approach. It contains six steps that are designed to take a school through a process of growth that mirrors the stages of behavior change.

Year: 2011
Organisation: Raising Voices
Country/Region: Uganda, Lesotho, Mongolia
Langage: English. They are open to translating into other languages.
Cost: Free

This publication looks at how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) relates to disabled children in developing countries. Illustrated with examples of good practice from around the world, it makes the case of taking action to promote disabled children's rights.

Year: 2001
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Country/Region: Africa, Asia, North America, Europe
Langage: Portuguese
Cost: Free

The toolkit has four interrelated objectives that address:
- Development of a collective vision for the school
- Creation of a nurturing learning environment
- Implementation of a more progressive learning methodology
- Strengthening school governance
The Toolkit is designed to be systematic and child-friendly in its approach. It contains six steps that are designed to take a school through a process of growth that mirrors the stages of behavior change.

At the moment, the toolkit isn't available for download from the website, but contact your XN member who will have it.

Year: 2011
Organisation: Raising Voices
Country/Region: Uganda
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Basic by design, so you don’t need any training or special knowledge to use them. If you are suffering the pain of trauma yourself, these online resources can help you find healing. And if you feel called to help others cope with their deepest pain, these resources can help you do that. All Basics resources are free to use, share, and adapt.

Year: 2021
Organisation: Trauma Healing Institute
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

A Facilitator’s Resource for Ecumenical Faith and Community-Based Counselling

Year: 2019
Organisation: World Council of Churches
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

This brochure can be used by dioceses, parishes, and schools to educate others on the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, and to promote outreach to survivors of abuse.

Year: 2014
Organisation: US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English, Spanish
Cost: US$2.50

El Estatuto parThe Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People is a comprehensive set of procedures originally established by the USCCB in June 2002 for addressing allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergya la protección de niños y jóvenes es un conjunto integral de procedimientos establecidos originalmente por USCCB en junio de 2002 para tratar las alegaciones de abuso sexual de menores por parte de miembros del clero católico.

Year: 2018
Organisation: US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English, Spanish
Cost: US$2.80

A Guide to Action for leaders and communities.

Year: 2021
Organisation: Religions for Peace
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

The purpose of the toolkit is to facilitate child and youth participatory practice and gives examples of activities that can support participatory practice.

Year: 2016
Organisation: Tusla
Country/Region: Ireland
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Available for Early Learning through Grade 5, the Child Protection Unit empowers prevention by providing training and resources to help adults and kids know how to recognize, respond to, and report abuse. Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help children thrive.

Organisation: Second Step
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English
Cost: $209 - $4,529 depending on the resources you're buying

Research-based Bullying Prevention Unit which gives educators and school staff the training and tools needed to effectively address school bullying in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help children thrive.

Organisation: Second Step
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English
Cost: $209 - $4,529 depending on the resources you're buying

Research-based, teacher-informed, and classroom-tested unit to promote the social-emotional development, safety, and well-being of children from Early Learning through Grade 8. Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help children thrive.

Organisation: Second Step
Country/Region: United States of America
Langage: English
Cost: $209 - $4,529 depending on the resources you're buying

Classroom focus learning empathy through engaging with a young baby. The program is designed for children ages 5 to 13. In Canada, the program is delivered in English and French and reaches rural, urban, and remote communities including Indigenous communities. The program is also in New Zealand, the United States, the Republic of Ireland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and Costa Rica. The goals of Roots of Empathy are to:To foster the development of empathy; To develop emotional literacy; To reduce levels of bullying, aggression and violence, and promote children’s pro-social behaviours; To increase knowledge of human development, learning, and infant safety; To prepare students for responsible citizenship and responsive parenting.

Year: 2012
Organisation: Roots of Empathy
Country/Region: Canada
Langage: English, French
Cost: $17.73

La Jornada Escolar Complementaria es una estrategia de permanencia en el sistema educativo, está dirigida a estudiantes de instituciones oficiales, se implementa durante el año lectivo en horario contrario a la jornada escolar, y pretende la generación de espacios de aprendizaje que pueden desarrollarse dentro o fuera de las instituciones educativas (Pie de página circular MEN, 2009). Esta estrategia se ha posicionado como un espacio en el que se articulan

Year: 2014
Organisation: Fundacion Carvajal
Country/Region: International
Langage: Portugese and English
Cost: Free

This handbook is designed for use by facilitators who work to engage young men in gender equity, violence prevention, and the creation of healthier, more just relationships. The curriculum includes a series of sessions to enable young people to reflect and build collective support to make positive and healthy changes in their lives. Using the lens of intersectionality, Masculinities 2.0 encourages young people to reflect critically on their identities in the specific contexts in which they are formed.Manhood 2.0 is a transformative gender curriculum developed by Promundo and the University of Pittsburgh to engage 15-24 year olds in reflections on the impacts of harmful gender norms, specifically those involving issues such as teenage pregnancy, dating violence, sexual violence and LGBTQI + phobia. The initiative is an adaptation of Program H, an evidence-based program launched by Promundo and partners in 2002 and adapted in more than 35 countries around the world. Underlying this approach is the knowledge that the ways in which boys and young men are socialized have profound implications for the health, well-being and safety of all people.

Organisation: Promundo
Country/Region: International
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Community-based approach to preventing violence against women

Organisation: Raising Voices
Country/Region: Uganda
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Contains resources for primary school teachers to explore child safeguarding and protection with children from Junior Infants (age 4-5 years) to 6th class (age 12-13 years). Includes worksheets, lessons, etc

Organisation: Stay Safe
Country/Region: Ireland
Langage: English
Cost: Free

Aimed at training parents, teachers and care-givers on positive discipline. It covers techniques, case studies and advice for alternative forms of discipline and looks at the concept of punishment within the context of early childhood development.

Year: 2015
Organisation: Plan International
Country/Region: Vietnam
Langage: English
Cost: Free