Child Protection Foundation Workshop

Date: 14–15 January 2025
Location: International School of Beijing, China

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.

Access training and resources tailored to international school communities. Return to your school to facilitate community-wide learning and growth.

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 from this CIS professional learning experience?

Learn to:

recognize and respond to affluent neglect within your community
understand the signs of online grooming and sexual abuse
understand the risks associated with bullying and harm between students
address forms of harm effectively by engaging the student voice
build skills in your community around online consent, cyber-bullying, and online sexual harassment
examine 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
safeguard young people whose voices have traditionally been marginalized due to their race, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, ability, or other identity markers

How you will learn:

activities, practice and training guided by experts
explore resources tailored to facilitate learning throughout your international school for community-wide learning and growth
an introduction to the CIS Whole School Safeguarding model and the CIS Safeguarding Toolkit
case studies and discussion around how to recognize and respond to affluent neglect
online safety activities for staff to conduct with students around cyber-bullying, online sexual harassment and consent, and sexting
daily live Q&A with the speakers
recordings and resources available to registered participants for most sessions available for three weeks after the workshop closes

Return to school with greater confidence to:

protect your students from peer-on-peer abuse
support LGBTQ+ students and faculty and create an inclusive culture
train your school board members on safeguarding best practices
know where to go for supporting guidance via the CIS Community portal

Keynotes:

Defining and understanding the causes and practices of sexual abusers
Addressing peer-on-peer abuse within international school settings

Choose from two 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

Recent participant feedback

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.

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

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.

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?

We welcome people in the following roles at CIS member schools: Heads of schools, principals, social-emotional counsellors, university guidance counsellors, safeguarding leads and child protection officers, school board members.

Registration deadline: 7 January 2025

Fees are listed in the Community portal.

Register

You can check if your school is a member in our membership directory. Learn more about CIS membership. If your institution is not a CIS member, contact us at membership@cois.org to learn more about applying for membership.

CIS affiliated consultants & CIS supporting members

Registration deadline: 7 January 2025
Fee: €550.00 (excluding VAT)

Please contact eventsupport@cois.org if you interesting in attending this event.

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