Oak Foundation strives to prevent abuse and promote the safety, protection, wellbeing, and development of children. We are committed to putting these principles into practice.
For more information about child safeguarding at Oak, please watch our video.
Oak Foundation strives to prevent abuse and promote the safety, protection, wellbeing, and development of children. We are committed to putting these principles into practice. We have done this by developing our own child safeguarding policy that applies to all Oak Foundation staff, consultants, contractors, and volunteers.
We also ask our grantee partners to adhere to the same safeguarding standards that we set for ourselves. Oak Foundation’s child safeguarding standards consist of five building blocks that together create a safer organisational environment for children.
For more information about child safeguarding at Oak, please read our Child Safeguarding Policy.
Child Safeguarding/ Policy
Child Safeguarding Policy
The child safeguarding policy helps us lay down standards of conduct and behaviour, provides a clear overview of what is acceptable and not, and gives instructions in cases of violations. Discover what this policy entails by reading the following document.
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Safeguarding as a culture: the story of Heartlines
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Leading by example: When funders take on safeguarding
Oak offered the Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund safeguarding support from Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC) Uganda. IIDC provides capacity-strengthening services – in…
Review of Oak Foundation’s learning on child safeguarding
In 2013, Oak developed a Child Safeguarding Policy, stemming from its commitment to help build a world where every child is protected from all forms of abuse. To this end, Oak established an internal…
Every year, we ask our grantee partners who come into contact with or have access to children to undergo a child safeguarding self-audit process. This is because we believe that safeguarding children…
Child Safeguarding/Housing and Homelessness Programme/Partner story
How our partner Neighbors Together began their safeguarding journey
The work of many organisations may not focus directly on children or families, but have contact with them (e.g. when children accompany their parents to public meetings). Neighbors Together, a Housing…
Oak envisages a world where children are protected from all forms of abuse and exploitation, and where their rights and safety are respected. We are determined to put children first in all we do, whic…
We have added the most frequent questions to our Q&A document.
Child Safeguarding/ Q&A
Child Safeguarding Q&A
Frequently asked questions
In this document we have consolidated frequently asked questions in relation to child safeguarding. If you are a partner of Oak Foundation and your question is not listed below, please get in touch with us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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