Pour des Activités Récréatives dans un Cadre Sûr

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The PARCS project (Pour des Activités Récréatives dans un Cadre Sûr - For Recreational Activities in a Safe Environment) has been designed to address violence against children. It aims at promoting the embedding of child safeguarding policies among organisation working with children, in the cultural, sports and leisure fields. Indeed, an overall approach to child safeguarding is rooted in understanding the risks children can face in these organisations and addressing those risks with measures that create child-safe organisations. “The more this is recognised, the more risks can be prevented”. That is why, the development of robust child protection policies is particularly relevant to tackle violence against children. Our approach is child-right based and take into account their specific vulnerabilities and needs. The project will enable the targeted organisations to be aware of the specific protection needed for children, to formalize and adopt an appropriate child safeguarding policies in line with the international standards that will be used as baseline. It will create a pool of trainers able to support a participatory process to implement child protection policies in different kind of settings and make the tools needed to support this process easily available in one online platform. It will also benefit from the existing national and international expertise, through an advisory board, but also from an advisory board of children that will share their experience and guide the whole project. The project is coordinated by Defence for children international Belgium, a child rights organisation, in partnership with the Ombudsman for Children and Yapaka, the public authority in charge of the coordination of the prevention of the maltreatment and abuses against children in the Belgian French Community. Finally, the Defence for children international- World Service Foundation will support the dissemination and advocacy at European level.