Try it on your own policy

Your policy, in the language a child actually reads.

Almost every safeguarding policy here is written in English. The children it protects often cannot read a word of it.

No ads. No tracking. Nothing collected about children — that's the point.

A line from your policy
Draft in Acholi Awaiting a speaker

No Acholi edition exists yet. Ask for it and we will tell you the day a reviewer who speaks it has approved one.

Nothing is published, printed or sent unreviewed.

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Take something with you today

Three of our most-used resources. Read them now, print them today — they're yours. These are the English originals; local-language editions follow as reviewers approve them.

The loop

How a policy becomes something a child can read

A policy in a filing cabinet protects no one. This is the path from a document written in English to a poster a child reads in their own language — and how the next language stays paid for. Every number here is live, from this site's own records.

A policy comes in

A school shares the safeguarding policy it already has, in English.

14 resources so far

It is drafted into the language

Open models built in Uganda for Ugandan languages do the first pass.

A machine drafts — it never publishes

A person approves every line

Someone who speaks the language checks the words, and the hardest terms are agreed once, then reused.

Nothing publishes unreviewed

It goes on the wall

Posters, cards and signage, printed locally. What they earn pays the reviewers who check the next one.

The first packs are logged here
Where this stands today

Every resource in our library is still in English.

All 14 of them. We would rather write that plainly than let this page imply otherwise — the gap is the reason the work exists, and closing it is the work. Local-language editions appear here as reviewers approve them, and each one stays free to download for any school that wants it.

First languages: Swahili, Luganda and Acholi. Some languages are not yet well served by any model we would trust — where that is true we will say so, rather than publish words no speaker has checked.

For schools & organisations

The Starter Pack — free, forever

Everything a school needs to put its safeguarding promises where people can see them. Download and print it yourself at no cost, or order it printed and delivered — in English today, and in your community's language as those editions are approved.

  1. Download the pack and print it. Or order the printed version — at cost plus the margin that funds free packs for others.
  2. Put the promises on your walls and brief your staff. The guides walk you through the core promises, the child-friendly policy version, and the Safe Adult standard.
  3. Tell us you're using it — and which language you need. We'll log your school, answer questions, and tell you when that language edition lands. Which languages schools ask for is what decides the order we work in.

What's in the pack

  • Three-rules posters for every classroom
  • Pocket-card sheets — one card per child
  • Report-here poster with your focal person's name
  • Safe-space door sign wording
  • The core-promises framework for your policy
  • The child-friendly policy template
  • The Safe Adult vetting & briefing standard
  • Receiving-a-disclosure — the staff one-pager
The studio

Design is half the work. Language is the other half.

A poster nobody can read is decoration, and a translation nobody checked is a risk. Every piece here has to survive both tests — and states its basis, right where you can check it.

From the shop

Every purchase puts safety on a wall — and pays for the next language.

What each item earns funds the people who check every translation, and prints free materials for the schools that need them most. As final prices land, we'll publish the exact ratio next to every product — a claim you can check, like everything else here.

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Ongoing work

What the cohort is doing right now

SafeSpace is one node in a cohort of organisations working on children's safety and wellbeing. This feed tracks the work as it happens — short, dated, and real.

28 Aug 2026

Free resource library reaches 14 published resources

New this month: the core-promises framework, the child-friendly policy template, and the receiving-a-disclosure standard for staff.

ASAT Labs (SafeSpace)

24 Aug 2026 Sample

Safeguarding materials tested with two primary schools

Draft posters and pocket cards reviewed with teachers and a children's group; wording simplified twice before sign-off.

Cohort partner · Acholi sub-region · Acholi sub-region

18 Aug 2026 Sample

Language champions identified for policy translation

Two reviewers agreed to check safeguarding translations for the shared glossary — the human gate before anything publishes.

Cohort partner · West Nile · Arua District

Entries marked Sample show the shape of this feed — they're replaced by real cohort updates as partners share them.

Where we are today

Small, real, and checkable

We'd rather show you honest numbers than borrowed ones. Every figure below comes from this site's live records — and every claim on this page links to the page that proves it.

14
Free resources
1
Language published
6
Labelled designs
116
On every page

The rules we hold ourselves to

This part is for children. Stories about being brave, a quiz on the three rules, and things to print and make — safe to explore alone, with help always one tap away.

Enter the Children's Corner
The collaboration

Why we exist

SafeSpace is built by ASAT Labs as part of a Global Fund for Children cohort working on children's safety and wellbeing — born from watching safeguarding policies protect filing cabinets instead of children. A policy written in a language a community does not read is not a safeguard; it is paperwork. The translation work we're proposing with cohort partners lives here, and the shared glossary it builds — the agreed words for the hardest terms, in each language — is the part no organisation could afford to make alone. The full story →

Stay close

One new resource, every month

We publish at least one new safeguarding resource each month, and we'll tell you when a new language edition lands. Leave an email and we'll send it — nothing else, ever, and one click to leave.