Child Protection Deep Dive Workshop: Peer-on-peer abuse

Date: 11–12 November 2025
Time: 08:30–17:00 Central European Time (CET) Convert to your time zone
Location: Virtual

 

In-depth training focusing on harm and abuse between students

Harm between students can occur online, in school, and in the wider community, often referred to as peer-on-peer abuse.

Join this workshop to learn from experts as you take on the vital task of helping young people develop social-emotional skills to help them identify and report abuse.

 

What can you expect to learn?

• strategies to better prevent, identify early, and manage appropriately, forms of harm and abuse between students
• how forms of harm can intersect and overlap
• prevalent forms of harm in their school’s context and how they relate to safeguarding 
• skills to carry out an inquiry following a disclosure 
• how to foster connections with peers in similar roles and responsibilities to facilitate collaboration and create support networks

 

How you can expect to learn:

• guided by exceptional speakers with deep knowledge, expertise, and direct experience 
• via a challenging case study approach for both primary and secondary school settings 
• plus, practical guidance, strategies, and extensive resources

 

You will leave feeling:

• more aware of the risks and complexities involved in responding to harm between students, and its prevalence  
• mindful of the possibility that you will need to lead an inquiry following disclosure of harm between students 
• equipped and confident to develop protocols that help you prepare for such an event 
• able to identify and build on protective factors and take preventative action 
• knowing how student voice can strengthen safeguarding practices in your school and with strategies to engage students

 

Why should your school invest in this training?

Managing a disclosure of harm between students can be high stakes for a school, and disclosure can be made anytime. So, your school needs to be prepared. Plus! Schools completing CIS International Accreditation will find that the workshop content aligns with the CIS International Accreditation framework.