Sri Lanka, Dec. 20 -- The British School in Colombo (BSC) recently took an inventive step to ensure safety and protection of children with its inaugural "Safeguarding and Pastoral Care Conference 2025", an event that is planned to be in the school annual calendar.

A phrase new to Sri Lanka's children related vocabulary, 'Safeguarding and Pastoral Care' is a broader term which not only refers to the protection of children but how harms could be prevented. Very much different to 'child protection', the common term used in Sri Lankan context and refers to how we respond to harm, 'safeguarding' is very much an umbrella term which refers to how we prevent harm on children.

"Safeguarding is often referred to as an 'umbrella' term which does ...