Province of L’Hermitage co-hosts global summit on child protection
Keeping Children Safe [KCS], a prestigious independent international non-profit organisation for the defence and protection of children, is holding a global online summit from the 8th to the 11th of November. Each year it focuses on a specific theme. This year’s theme is “Safeguarding in Faith-Based Organisations”, with clear objectives such as the engagement of faith-based organisations and networks in child protection and awareness of the risks and possibilities of abusers infiltrating these institutions.
The Marist Brothers of the Hermitage Province have been invited by KCS as one of the partners or co-organisers of this global summit, with a number of commitments made as such. We will present a paper entitled “Co-creating a safeguarding culture. Networking where prevention and child rights protection in Marist ministries”. Working on prevention and child rights protection in Marist ministries”, based on the leitmotiv “the child as a subject of rights”.
At the same time, the summit aims to offer an area for sharing challenges, good practices, solutions and opportunities, the stimulation of an inter-religious dialogue on these contents, the dissemination of tools and resources at the service of poor organisations, the offering of a network to build protection on a global level and the maintenance on the internet of the conferences of this summit for those who have not been able to follow the event live.
The Marist presentation, given by Raimon Novell, coordinator of the Child Protection Team of Marists Catalonia, will include references to institutional commitment, and how, as a religious institution, we can establish the co-creation of protection policies from the perspective of collaboration in a network with other institutions. This presentation will take place on Monday 8 November at 15.30 (Rome time).
Participation in the global summit is free of charge. All you need to do is to register. We invite you to participate. You can register by clicking on this link: Faith and Child Safeguarding.
We also encourage you to join the content related to the summit in your networks through the hashtag #FaithAndChildSafeguarding.
The global summit allows for an important reflection in favour of children, awareness of prevention and protection in faith-based organisations and networks, and knowledge of good practices and resources for the exercise of a mission with guarantees.