Child Protection Foundation Workshop

Date: 17–18 October 2023
Time: 07:30–16:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST) | Convert to your time zone
Unsure of your schedule and ability to attend live? Access recordings and materials for on-demand participation.
Location: Virtual

Develop your understanding of the key risks and realities relating to child protection and safeguarding within international school communities.

Affluent neglect, child sexual abuse, online grooming, and peer-on-peer abuse—these are just a few of the workshop topics you’ll explore as you seek to create safer environments for your students.

Join other school leaders and educators to learn and connect on vital and well-established workshop content plus newly developed and timely material in an accessible online format.

What can you expect?

Training that is tailored to the needs of international school communities
Learn how to recognize and respond to affluent neglect within your community
Develop a shared understanding of the signs of online grooming and sexual abuse
Understand the risks associated with bullying and harm between students and how to address these forms of harm effectively by engaging the student voice
Learn how to build skills in your community around online consent, cyber-bullying, and online sexual harassment
Case studies and discussion around how to recognize and respond to affluent neglect

Plus:

Recordings and resources available to registered participants for most sessions for three weeks after the workshop closes
Specific issues arising from remote and blended learning environments, e.g., online grooming, receiving virtual disclosures, addressing harm in the home, and adapting policies and codes of conduct to remote learning environments
A session looking at how to safeguard young people whose voices have traditionally been marginalized due to their race, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, ability, or other identity markers
An online safety session with activities for staff to conduct with students around cyber-bullying, online sexual harassment and consent, and sexting
Live Q&A sessions with the speakers at the end of each day

Keynotes:

Defining and understanding the causes and practices of sexual abusers
Recognizing and responding to affluent neglect within international school communities
Addressing peer-on-peer abuse within international school settings

Choose from three strands:

Strand A: Leadership—Developing school-wide child protection policies and practices including safer recruitment and communicating in a crisis
Strand B: Prevention & response—Understanding and responding to online harm, identity-based harm and harm in the home, and supporting and educating young people to develop healthy relationships.

Speakers

Speakers:

Testimonials

Recent participant feedback:

The sessions were filled with concrete advice

I really enjoyed the sessions on dealing with disclosures and cultural context. The speaker was excellent. Very relevant. I liked the ability to choose between sessions to suit context and interest.

Amazing coordination and time management by the team and the selection of topics was extremely relevant and helpful in all cultural contexts.

Thank you for the high standard of CIS workshops. I really appreciated the small group sessions in the recent workshop. I liked that these discussions had a focus and a task to complete as a group. It made it a lot more meaningful than typical breakout room discussions.

The sessions were clearly delivered by top experts, which I appreciated. The software was great and helped the sessions to run smoothly!

The immediacy of the need for awareness & tools in this area made this workshop incredibly important.

Real deepening of understanding of the way in which safeguarding needs to be practiced and signposted across all that we do in schools. The way this needs to be implemented was very clearly explained. Processes for communication in a crisis were also made explicit (as was their significance).

Knowledgeable and engaging speakers. High level of learning. Will have a high impact on practice in school.

I like the way we, as a team, had to discuss and analyse a case step by step, allowing us to see the timeline and realize how we have to be prepared to deal with different events as more allegations were made. Very helpful points and suggestions such as building a relationship with the local authorities before anything happens and so that it's easier to deal with them should abuse occur.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is the difference between a foundation workshop and a deep dive workshop?

A foundation workshop provides a broad understanding of a range of topics relating to child protection in schools. This covers areas such as safer recruitment, how sex offenders operate, peer-on-peer abuse, communicating in a crisis, developing school-wide child protection policies and identifying and receiving disclosures of abuse. On the second day of the workshops a small number of sessions are divided into two strands and attendees choose which strand they would like to attend.

A deep dive workshop focuses on one or two specific topics and enables individuals to explore that topic in detail. There are currently three types of deep dive workshops:

preventing, identifying early and managing appropriately allegations of child abuse by educators and other adults
tackling peer-on-peer abuse and educating and supporting students
specialist training for counsellors and psychologists on cognitive behavioural therapy in schools

Q: Can I attend a deep dive workshop if I have not yet attended a foundation workshop?

Yes, you are able to attend a deep dive workshop without first attending the foundation workshop. However, we encourage all participants to attend a CIS Child Protection Foundation workshop first since the Deep Dive workshop will build upon principals covered in the foundation workshop. The content we cover is different from other child protection training available at a national level. The two workshops are designed together to develop skills to support your international school.

Q: Can anyone attend the workshops or do you have to carry out a particular role in a school?

Any member of staff can attend a foundation workshop including board members, heads of school, teaching and administrative staff, and counsellors.

Q: What time will the workshop start and end on each day?

Most workshops will run from 8.30 and finish no later than 17.00 each day. A detailed schedule will be sent to all registered attendees before the event.

Q: Will the presentations be available after the workshop?

Yes, we will post some of the presentations online for you to download. However, due to the sensitive content shown during some sessions, not all presentations will be available for download.

Q: Will I receive a certificate of attendance?

Yes, we will provide a certificate of attendance after the workshop.

Who is this workshop for?

Heads of schools, principals, social-emotional counsellors, university guidance counsellors, safeguarding leads and child protection officers, CIS accreditation team evaluators, school board members.

Registration deadline: 6 October 2023
Fee: €550 (excluding VAT)

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If your institution is not a CIS member and you are interested in this event, please email Jane Joyce.

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Child Protection Foundation Workshop

What can you expect?

Plus:

Keynotes:

Choose from three strands:

Speakers

Speakers:

Dr Silvie Bovarnick

Childnet

Jane Foster-Sarre

Dr Jordan Greenbaum

Jim Hulbert

Susie March

Dr Emily Meadows

Katie Rigg

Dr Joe Sullivan

Testimonials

Recent participant feedback:

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this workshop for?