Child Safeguarding Initiative

Safe in Town

Strengthening integrated child protection in selected European municipalities — building cultures, policies, and systems that ensure every child is safe, heard, and supported.

— About the Project

Every child deserves to grow up safe and supported

Cities and municipalities are the closest level of governance to children — where they learn, play, and grow. Yet comprehensive child safeguarding policies have rarely been embedded at this level. Safe in Town changes that.

The project supports four European municipalities to develop, adopt, and implement City Child Safeguarding Policies (CCSP): practical, multi-sectoral frameworks that coordinate all local actors — from schools and health services to law enforcement and social services — around a shared culture of child protection and wellbeing.

Grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, Safe in Town follows a child rights-based approach, placing children and young people as active participants in shaping the policies that affect them.

— Specific Objectives

What we are working towards

— Where we work

The participating cities

— Methodology

A child-centred approach to protection and wellbeing

The project follows the Keeping Children Safe International Child Safeguarding Standards and places children as active participants through a Child Advisory Board (CAB) in each city. All activities apply a gender-sensitive and intersectional lens.