How to Talk to Young Children About the Police

Talking To Young Children About The Police How to talk to young children about the police is important as children are increasingly likely to encounter conversations about police brutality and violence. For example, media coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin was so...

Black Families Talk About Racial Identity with Children

Child Safety In Education

A parent and senior fellow at the think tank New America shares her experience and thinking on talking to children about race and raising Black children who are confident in their racial identity. I wasn’t surprised the first time my son and daughter noted a...

How to Talk with Young Children About the George Floyd Protests

Child Safety In Education

Britannica for Parents offers ideas for how to talk with young children about the George Floyd protests and current events and, especially, how to reassure children who feel confused, frightened, or worried. The recent George Floyd protests sparked by his death (as...

Safeguarding in schools – do you know what to do?

Child Safety In Education

The Safeguarding obligations within a school are not the responsibility of just one person, they fall to every member of the schools staff. If anybody has a suspicion of an issue they are required to act rather than assume somebody else will manage the situation....

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