Save the Children works in the United States and around the world to give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Since our founding over 100 years ago, we’ve changed the lives of over 1 billion children.
This work would not be possible without child safeguarding. Save the Children recognizes that when special trust is exploited and standards for safeguarding children fail, immense damage is caused with long-term effects on the lives of children, their families and communities. Learn more below and read Save the Children's Safeguarding and Counter-Human Trafficking Policy.
Safeguarding is set of policies, procedures and practices employed to actively prevent harm, abuse and distress.
Save the Children adopts safeguarding practices within our organization to ensure our employees, volunteers, partners, vendors, and other representatives do not deliberately or unintentionally harm or abuse children or adults in affected communities.
Child safeguarding is specifically focused on preventative actions to ensure that all children are protected from deliberate or unintentional acts that lead to the risk of or actual harm.
The goal of child safeguarding is to create and maintain a safe culture that is child-focused and community-driven through sustained and meaningful engagement with children, their families, communities and all representatives.
At Save the Children, child safeguarding is a commitment to be a safe organization for children. The Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures along with the Code of Ethics, are the foundation for safe programming standards, which reflect Save the Children’s commitment to first prevent harm and abuse, and then report and respond whenever concerns arise
