<p dir="ltr">Also encouraging is a dramatic increase in the number of projects that now have an active Child Protection Policy. 40% of projects surveyed have a Child Protection Policy in place, up from just 25% in 2018.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">Gender Inclusion, Youth Leadership and Child Protection are all key focus areas of Skateistan’s knowledge-sharing initiative: the Goodpush Alliance. In the past year, Goodpush has published a Child Protection Toolkit, run webinars on the topic and hosted workshops at Goodpush events held in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">Rhianon Bader, Goodpush Manager at Skateistan said: “It’s really encouraging to see that so many social skate projects are taking the issue of Child Protection seriously and we’re stoked that it seems the resources that Goodpush provides on this have been useful. There’s still more work to be done though, as only 18% of projects rated their policies as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ so we really want to focus on supporting them to improve in this area over the next year.”&nbsp;</p>
