Does your school provide child protection training and/or other safeguarding support for parents? Critical to the success of your child abuse prevention and intervention practice is the engagement of the parent body. This requires the delivery of basic training, information on your safeguarding policy and practice framework, behavioural standards, together with the provision of context for your professional and ethical approach to incidents.
Systematic child protection training should not only be considered for volunteers, contractors, faculty and staff – parents should be considered on this list. Working in collaboration with parents on such matters, whilst at the same time, keeping communication open, transparent and honest should be a feature of any school’s approach.
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