Child and Youth Safeguarding

We conceptualise child and youth safeguarding as our responsibility to ensure that our co-workers, representatives, operations and activities do no harm to children and young people.

We conceptualise child and youth safeguarding as our responsibility to ensure that our co-workers, representatives, operations and activities do no harm to children and young people.

Child &Youth safeguarding is a core business of SOS Children's Villages in Uganda. The Child and Youth Safeguarding portfolio implements all the minimum requirements for safeguarding. These requirements are in line with our four pillars of child and youth safeguarding: prevention, awareness and training, reporting, and responding.

 

Creating a safe and protective environment for children and young people is everyone's responsibility.

Therefore, this portfolio ensures that all those working for or on behalf of SOS Children’s Villages in any capacity, whether paid or unpaid, including but not limited to staff (full and part time), volunteers, board members and members of governing bodies, consultants, contractors, suppliers, partners, donors, and visitors to SOS Children’s Villages premises, projects, and programmes. All those working for or on behalf of SOS Children’s Villages MUST always comply with the measures put in place.

Children's Rights

UN Guidelines for Alternative Care