Organizers of 2018 Child Protection Training Workshop are urging teachers and staff based in schools to take advantage of the event to equip themselves with rudiments and knowledge on how to keep children safe from abuses and other harmful elements of society.

The workshop known as "An introduction to Child protection in schools" and slated for 10th of July, 2018 is meant to take teachers through rudiments in how to keep children safe from abuses and other harmful elements of society.

According to Founder of Centre for Child Protection Ghana and Principal Social work Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, Dr. Prospera Tedam, JHS and SHS students needs to be exposed to statistics on devastating effects of drug abuse to enable them identify signs of exploitation, trafficking and domestic servitude.

In an exclusive interview with Class News' Jerry Akornor, ahead of the child protection training workshop in Accra, the Child Protection Advisor to UK Immigration Ministry Dr. Prospera Tedam said teachers require child protection skills to guard students against cases of abuse.

"In absence of child protection expertise in Schools in Ghana, children experience multitude of abusive and neglectful care such as varying levels of verbal and emotional abuses" Dr. Prospera Tedam said.

The 2018 GUBA Award Nominee Dr. Prospera Tedam, has also charged managers of children's homes to remain proactive in order to avoid harm to children and not wait for interventions after harm. "It's about proactively seeking to avoid harm to children and not wait for harm to be caused before you intervene" Dr. Prospera Tedam said.