INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
KEEPING E
very child has the right to be safe in school. In recent years, however, there have been incidents of child safety breaches within international schools that have shocked and saddened
the international education community. These incidents have spurred leading international educators to
tackle the challenges of working collaboratively across the globe to ensure that a set of comprehensive standards for protecting children is universally recognised and put into practice.
The British School in the Netherlands
CHILDREN SAFE in international education
With safety and security at the top of business agendas worldwide, Relocate Global explores how relocating families can choose a school that follows best practice in child safety protocols.
International task force In April 2014, Jane Larsson, executive director of the Council of International Schools, became chair of the newly formed International Task Force on Child Protection (ITFCP). “There were a number of events that shocked and saddened us
all,” Ms Larsson explains. “Child abuse is not new, but because the events were so personal for many of us, they became a catalyst for action. How could this have happened? How could people that we know abuse children and we didn’t even recognise it?”
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