Child protection consists of reducing risks to children’s holistic wellbeing, making children’s rights to protection a reality, restoring hope and a dignified life where abuse and violence has occured and creating an enabling environment that supports children’s positive development. Child protection work considers systems and community-based approaches to protection, including change at the institutional, community, family and individual level.

This course aims to equip child protection practitioners with knowledge and skills to effectively deliver protection services in their various capacities.

Target Participants

This course is aimed at professionals working in child protection, including probation and social welfare officers, social workers with NGOs/CBOs, teachers, police officers, community development officers, community health educators and state prosecutors.

Course Duration

Online     7 Days

Classroom-based     5 Days

What you will learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to: 

• Understand concepts, approaches, ethics, and principles of child protection Use the child protection framework and policy for assessing issues affecting children
• Design effective child protection interventions
• Understand formal and informal child protection systems, as well as roles and responsibilities of actors in child protection
• Create a protective environment within their communities and activities/projects
• Respond to child protection through responsive action and remedial action