Child Protection Foundation Workshop

Date: 15–16 October 2025
Time:  08:30–17:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST) Convert to your time zone
Location: Virtual

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

Safer recruitment, affluent neglect, child sexual abuse, online safety, 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.

Return to your school ready to contribute meaningfully to community-wide learning and growth.

The sessions were filled with concrete advice.

What can you expect from this CIS professional learning experience?

• Learn how to recognize and respond to affluent neglect within your community
• Understand recommended practice for safer recruitment of staff
• Develop a shared understanding of the signs of online grooming and sexual abuse and harassment, and learn how to build skills in your community
• Understand the risks associated with bullying and harm between students and how to address these forms of harm effectively by engaging the student voice
• Explore the nuances of safeguarding leadership, from policy development and governance to managing low-level concerns and community engagement
• Learn ways to include and safeguard young people whose voices may have been marginalized

The selection of topics was extremely relevant and helpful in all cultural contexts.

How you can expect to learn

• Training and resources tailored to facilitate learning throughout international school communities 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
• Live Q&A sessions with the speakers at the end of each day 
• Recordings and resources available to registered participants for most sessions for three weeks after the workshop closes

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

Keynotes:

• Defining and understanding the causes and practices of sexual abusers
• Addressing peer-on-peer abuse within international school settings
• A survivor's perspective on child sexual abuse

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.