The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) wants the sector to place special significance on 28 February and make it National Safeguarding Day.
Susanne Rauprich, NCVYS chief executive, said the charity wants all organisations working with children and young people to mark the occasion by stopping what they are doing, look at their safeguarding processes and listen to service users, empowering them to take ownership of their own safety.
The aim of the campaign is to improve safeguarding policies and standards across the sector.
Rauprich hopes organisations working with children and young people will pledge to support the campaign.
She said: “All of us in positions of trust need to do what we can to ensure our safeguarding policy and practice is current and effective – that is why we want to encourage and support organisations to stop, look and listen.
“The National Safeguarding Day adds a focus and gives us an opportunity to place safeguarding higher on our agendas.
“We’ve chosen 28 February so that every four years organisations also take the opportunity to make a leap ahead with their safeguarding practice.”
NCYVS will celebrate the first National Safeguarding Day by re-launching the Keeping it Safe guidance, which takes a young person-centred approach to safeguarding.
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