Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been awarded “Level 1 certification” for safeguarding children following an assessment by the global child safeguarding movement, Keeping Children Safe.

“By working to keep child safe in all aspects of their work, Terre des hommes shows real leadership in the aid sector on child safeguarding. We hope all organisations follow their success in implementing the International Child Safeguarding Standards. We must ensure that all children everywhere are protected from harm,“ says Sarah Blakemore, Director, Keeping Children Safe.

Level 1 certification evaluates if the child safeguarding framework of the organisation clearly outlines where there are risks to children’s safety and identifies the steps that need to be taken to minimise those risks.

Keeping Children Safe found that Tdh’s child safeguarding work was strong in several areas:

• A truly global child protection policy has been written and is available in different languages as well as materials for parents and children. There are procedures and guidance across the whole organisation. The policy is regularly reviewed and continually strengthened.
• Tdh has developed a good set of training materials and always inducts new staff on child safeguarding.
• Monitoring and review of child safeguarding takes place regularly, with active learning sessions.

“I am delighted Terre des hommes has gained Level 1 certification from Keeping Children Safe. This certification recognized the work of all our teams on the ground. The credit really goes to them,“ says Caroline Monin, Risk Management Advisor at Tdh.

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The Tdh’ Child Safeguarding Policy reaffirms and strengthens our commitment as an organisation towards keeping children safe and protecting them from all forms of harm and abuse. This is an issue of critical importance for Terre des hommes and we see that the protection of children, the promotion of their wellbeing and upholding children’s rights as the foundation of our work.

Keeping Children Safe is a dynamic and growing global network working to keep the world’s most vulnerable children safe from abuse and exploitation. It works in over 120 countries and reaches out to over 134 million children annually.