Integrityالنزاهة 

Resilience  المرونة

Equity  الإنصاف

Selflessness  الإيثار 

Passion  الشغف

Excellence  التميز

Compassion  التعاطف

Team Spirit  روح الفريق

 

 

 

 

Being an influential educational institution that empowers passionate future leaders who positively impact the world.

رؤيتنا أن تكون المشرق مؤسسة تربوية مؤثرة، تهيء كافة الإمكانات المحفّزة لقادة شغوفين يؤثرون إيجابيا بالعالم.

Emotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond a child’s developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill treatment of another. It may involve serious bullying (including cyber bullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, though it may occur alone. .
Source: https://www.isnsz.com/media/documents/ISNS_Child_Protection_Policy_REV17_2020.pdf

4- Neglect: Neglect is failure to provide for a child’s basic needs within their own
environment. Neglect may be:
- Physical e.g., failure to provide necessary food or shelter, or lack of appropriate
supervision - this would include failure to provide proper adult guardianship such
as leaving children unsupervised at home for any extended period of time. Should
parents/guardians leave the home/country for any reason the responsibility for
informing the school of all appropriate contact details lies with the parent or
guardian.
- Medical e.g., failure to provide necessary medical or mental health treatment.
- Emotional e.g., a pattern of actions, such as: inattention to a child’s emotional
needs, failure to provide psychological care, or permitting the child to use alcohol
or other drugs.

source:https://www.zis.ch/fs/resource-manager/view/cfc91ffc-7ef7-4ccc-b075-b6f5de854d61

5- Sexual Abuse : 

Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual activity or sexual behaviour that happens without consent or understanding.

Sexual violence and abuse can be physical contact or non-contact sexual activities, such as:

6-Exploitation: Definition of child exploitation

Child exploitation refers to the use of children for someone else’s advantage, gratification or profit often resulting in unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child.

These activities are to the detriment of the child’s physical or mental health, education, moral or social-emotional development. It covers situations of manipulation, misuse, abuse, victimisation, oppression or ill-treatment.
source: https://safeguarding.network/safeguarding-resources/child-criminal-exploitation/

Child abuse constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, exploitation (commercial or other types of exploitation), resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity

It is the responsibility of all Mashrek educators and admin staff to pick up cues of possible maltreatment by observing children’s behavior at school, observing physical signs, or during routine interviews with parents.

It is the responsibility of all Mashrek educators and admin staff to preserve and protect our students emotional, mental and physical health to empower passionate future leaders who can positively impact the world.

Child abuse in schools can take a number of different forms and be sexual, physical and/or emotional. Abusers can be:

Physical abuse of a child is when a parent or caregiver causes any non-accidental physical injury to a child. There are many signs of physical abuse. If you see any of the following signs, please get help right away.

Sexual abuse occurs when an adult uses a child for sexual purposes or involves a child in sexual acts. It also includes when a child who is older or more powerful uses another child for sexual gratification or excitement.

Emotional abuse When a parent or caregiver harms a child’s mental and social development, or causes severe emotional harm, it is considered emotional abuse. While a single incident may be abuse, most often emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior that causes damage over time.

Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver does not give the care, supervision, affection and support needed for a child’s health, safety and well-being. Child neglect includes:

 

 

 

·         Any recent act or failure to act: This reminds us that abuse and neglect are two distinct concepts. A child can be harmed by overt actions like hitting or kicking, but a child can also be harmed when an adult fails to provide for the child’s well-being. For example, an adult may fail to provide medical care, adequate supervision, or food.

·         on the part of a parent or caretaker: Remember abuse and neglect can happen anywhere and by anyone. Abuse does not just happen at the hands of a parent or family member. Abuse and neglect can be committed by anyone who is responsible for the care of a child. This might be a teacher, teen volunteer, coach, faith leader, or any other individual in a caregiving or supervisory role.

·         which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation

·         or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm: We don’t have to wait for tragedies to strike. If a child is in serious risk of harm, it can be considered abuse or neglect.

When child abuse occurs in the home and the abuser is, for example, the child’s parent or care-giver, this is a form of domestic violence .

But children are sometimes abused by other adults on whom they are dependent, such as day nursery workers, teachers and sports coaches.
Sometimes abuse is intentional, but not always. If parents or caregivers are no longer able to cope with caring for the child, this can result in dysfunctional behaviour and abuse.
https://www.government.nl/topics/child-abuse/what-is-child-abuse

The World Health Organization ([WHO], 2006, p. 9) defines child abuse and neglect as:

All forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.
The World Health Organization

"Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation"; or

"An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”  

State laws provide much greater detail.  A summary of state definitions for child abuse and neglect can be found here.  The Child Welfare Information Gateway also has a searchable database of state statutes to access access state-specific definitions.
https://nationalchildabusecoalition.org/what-is-child-abuse

recourse:
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/defining/


 The International School of Helsinki has a rich and diverse community with multiple cultural beliefs, values and practices. To respect the global nature of the community, for the purposes of our Child Safeguarding policy, we have chosen to follow the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) definition of abuse and neglect. THE WHO DECLARES:

 “Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.” 


resource:
 https://ishelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ISH_Child-Safeguarding_A4_web.pdf

Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond a child’s developmental capability as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child from participating in normal social interaction. It may 9 involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. It may involve serious bullying (including cyberbullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, although it may occur alone. 

 Sexual abuse: involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including assault (for example 🤬 or oral sex) or non-penetrative acts such as touching outside of clothing. They may also include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the production of, sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways, or grooming a child in preparation for abuse. Sexual abuse can take place online, and technology can be used to facilitate offline abuse. Sexual abuse is not solely perpetrated by adult males. Women can also commit acts of sexual abuse, as can other children. The sexual abuse of children by other children is a specific safeguarding issue in education.

Neglect: the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy, for example, as a result of maternal substance abuse. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to: provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment. It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs.

• bullying (including cyberbullying); 

• physical abuse such as hitting, kicking, shaking, biting, hair pulling, or otherwise causing physical harm; 

• sexual violence, 8 such as 🤬, assault by penetration and sexual assault; 

• sexual harassment, 9 such as sexual comments, remarks, jokes and online sexual harassment, which may be stand-alone or part of a broader pattern of abuse; 

• upskirting, 10 which typically involves taking a picture under a person’s clothing without them knowing, with the intention of viewing their genitals or buttocks to obtain sexual gratification, or cause the victim humiliation, distress or alarm; 

• sexting (also known as youth produced sexual imagery).