Child Safeguarding in Child Protection Systems

Alex Dressler

Head of Standards and Learning, Keeping Children Safe An international expert on child safeguarding with vast experience having worked for hundreds of organisations, in all regions of the world.

About this speaker

Alex posseses a wide range of experience in child safeguarding, child rights, investigating child safeguarding concerns and auditing child safeguarding procedures. He has designed and facilitated workshops for hundreds of organisations serving millions of children in dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America. In partnership with UNICEF and to promote greater collaboration around child protection, he facilitated workshops in four regions of Nigeria for senior officials from the courts, police, education, prisons, and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Alex has also audited the child safeguarding procedures of organisations in nearly a dozen countries.

He has more than 20 years of experience in international development. He was a regional organisation development delegate for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, assigned to support Red Cross Societies in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Before that, he was a regional resource development delegate for Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic. More recently, Alex was the director of the Consortium for Street Children. While the director, he was asked by the government of Tanzania to help develop a national strategy for vulnerable children.

Talks

The key role of child safeguarding in national child protection systems

28 March 2023, 11:00 AM
Alex Dressler

Roundtable: Identifying good practices and challenges in national settings

30 March 2023, 09:00 AM
Dr. Tasha Ebanks Garcia Ms. Bridget Moya Alex Dressler Hon. Justice Theresa Obot