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Child protection

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Key points
  • Link identification, screening and prioritisation of children at risk to registration processes, so that children who are most in need are identified quickly and efficiently.
  • Set up a simple, easy to manage Best Interests Procedure procedures early on, and ensure that they link to referral mechanisms for assistance and support. Consider linking these procedures to registration.
  • Make sure that child protection programmes engage actively with the community, to identify excluded children who may be in need of assistance.
  • Involve adolescents and young people in the design and delivery of child protection services.
  • Design child protection services to be as decentralised as possible. This approach should be taken to community activities at neighbourhood level, centre-based programmes, and activities that link with services in other sectors such as education, nutrition and health.
  • Consider developing protection activities in urban contexts, using sport and recreation or child friendly spaces as entry points, for example.

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