Child Protection Foundation Workshop

Date: 29–30 September 2026
Time:  08:30–17:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST) Convert to your time zone
Location: Virtual
 

Deepen your understanding of the key risks and realities in safeguarding and child protection within international school communities.

Safer recruitment, child sexual abuse, online safety, and policy development—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 up-to-date material in an accessible online format.

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

What can you expect from this CIS professional learning experience?

• Tailored training for international school communities
• Practical skills you can apply immediately
• Recognize and respond to affluent neglect within your community 
• Understand recommended practice for safer staff recruitment 
• Learn how to identify the signs of online grooming and sexual abuse
• Explore the risks and ways to address bullying and harm between students effectively by elevating the student voice 
• Build community skills around consent, online harm, online sexual harassment, and extortion
• Explore safeguarding leadership, including policy development, governance, managing low-level concerns, and engaging the wider community

The sessions were filled with concrete advice.

How you can expect to learn

• Sessions delivered by leading experts in safeguarding and child protection 
• A session delivered by a survivor of abuse, providing greater insight into how to support and safeguard survivors of abuse and neglect
• Access to recordings and resources for most sessions for four weeks after the workshop
• 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

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 abuse
• Trauma informed practice; Adopting a polyvagal lens

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.

* or move between both, it’s your choice!