As part of our response to past organizational failures, SOS Children’s Villages has received the final report of an impartial, expert commission and welcomes its recommendations. The commission recognizes our progress in the past two years and the work that remains.
SOS Children’s Villages has adopted a new Child and Youth Safeguarding Policy that strengthens the standards required of all people and entities working for the organization or on its behalf.
In 2021, SOS Children’s Villages received independent reviews it had commissioned to better understand past safeguarding failures and identify ways to improve. . Devex spoke to CEO Ingrid Johansen about how the organization is transforming to address past cases of abuse and prevent future ones.
The Independent Special Commission (ISC), which was established in 2021 by the International Senate of SOS Children’s Villages, has recently completed an interim report and published this message regarding the interim report on its website.