"Child Safety Forum" He concludes his work in Sharjah and issues his recommendations
Sharjah, 28 November / WAM / The Child Safety Forum 2025, which concluded its work yesterday and was organized by the Child Safety Foundation in Sharjah under the slogan “We Preserve Their Innocence,” recommended launching a comprehensive national program to build the capabilities of parents and empower them with child protection skills, provided that its implementation begins from the kindergarten stage when the child is registered, and the guardian’s enrollment in the program is mandatory.
The program includes the preparation and implementation of a training of trainers (TOT) system to qualify cadres working in educational environments and providers of educational and social services to ensure the quality and spread of the application. It relies on preventive interventions, starting with the launch of national programs to achieve the best interest of the child, establishing a unified hotline and a smart application for reporting abuse, in addition to forming a multidisciplinary rapid intervention team linked to the hotline for urgent response to cases.
The Forum also recommended adopting the mandatory presence of a child protection specialist in all environments in which children are present, whether educational, recreational or service, through training or appointing a specialized employee who is responsible for proactively monitoring daily cases and risk indicators and dealing with various risks that the child may face, with the authority to report directly to the competent authorities in accordance with approved laws and legislation.
He called for the establishment of laboratories for emotional skills to enhance the child’s expression of his feelings as a methodology to protect and build the child’s vocabulary inventory to enhance his linguistic intelligence and enable him to express his feelings when dealing with others, understand the feelings of others, and enhance his ability to request help. This program should be implemented in schools in cooperation with the relevant authorities through training of trainers (and child protection specialists working in the educational sector) to ensure the integration of school work with the child protection system.
He urged the development and automation of a unified system linking databases related to children’s issues between security, health, educational and social agencies, which contributes to improving the accuracy of monitoring and speed of response, avoiding the recurrence of cases, and preparing comprehensive and sustainable national initiatives with the obligation to build the capabilities of those about to marry of both sexes on the psychological and emotional aspects, with the aim of enhancing their awareness of the stages of child development and methods of proper dealing with them, and enabling them to establish a healthy and stable family environment.
The forum, which was held under the patronage of the wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Muhammad Al Qasimi, Chairwoman of the Sharjah Family and Community Council, at the Al Jawaher Center for Events and Conferences, included qualitative interactive activities and experiences, including rooms of feelings, which gave attendees a sensory experience that simulates the child’s inner world through audio and interactive situations that show the effect of love and containment, or abuse and neglect, so that the visitor can experience what a child may feel in different situations and realize their profound psychological impact, in addition to the law platform, which reviewed national legislation. related to children’s rights and protection, and allowed attendees to write their legal proposals to strengthen the protection system, in addition to displaying video clips that allow the viewer to distinguish between realistic scenes and those produced with artificial intelligence, with the aim of raising awareness of the reliability of digital content, while allocating a corner to display an analysis of children’s drawings in cooperation with the Sharjah Foundation for Family Development to analyze children’s drawings and explore the psychological and behavioral indicators they reflect.
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