Sam Hewitt Sarah Blakemore

National legislation on child safeguarding in schools and childcare settings in Europe

A Talk by Sarah Blakemore and Sam Hewitt

About this Talk

Keeping Children Safe and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP have worked together to identify which countries have national legislation in place requiring schools and childcare settings to have specific child safeguarding policies.

In this presentation, they will present the project, its methodology and the preliminary findings for Europe.

16 November 2023, 03:30 PM

Video Presentation

03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

About The Speakers

Sarah Blakemore

Sarah Blakemore

Chief Executive Officer, Keeping Children Safe

Sarah Blakemore is CEO of Keeping Children Safe Global, President and CEO of Keeping Children Safe USA. She is a Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Reading and a PhD Candidate at the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel, University of London.


Sam Hewitt

Sam Hewitt

Associate, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP​

Sam Hewitt is an experienced commercial litigator at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP), an international law firm with an active pro bono programme. Sam has experience in working to protect vulnerable groups of people and a passion for social justice.