Welcome to Child Safeguarding in Coordination of Education and other Clusters
Learn how Coordination teams, working in clusters, sectors, AoRs or working groups, have an important role to play in keeping children safe in humanitarian responses by embedding child safeguarding (including PSEA of children) actions in their coordination functions and supporting partners to improve their commitments to child safeguarding.

This course is also available in French.

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Is this course for me?

This module targets primarily Cluster/AoR Coordination Teams (coordinators and IMOs), and while it is aimed at education cluster/EiE working group coordination teams specifically, it is also relevant to those working in all clusters/ sectors/ AoRs. 

This module is also suitable for staff of organisations members of any cluster/sector/AoR. 

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How will I benefit from this course?

By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Explain what child safeguarding is and the responsibilities it involves,
  • Differentiate child safeguarding from child protection (CP) and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA),
  • Describe how child safeguarding can be embedded in humanitarian coordination, and in particular the coordination of the education cluster/EiE working group,
  • Commit to improving child safeguarding in your context.

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How long will it take?
 This course should take you around 50 minutes to complete.

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How much does it cost?
 This course is free!

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Will I get a certificate at the end?
 Yes - you will be able to download a certificate once you have have completed all of the modules within the course.

The word START and a question mark in a circleHow do I start?
 Scroll to the top of the page and click on the       Join course       button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.

Email any technical queries to digitallearning@savethechildren.org.uk.