McElearney, A., Brennan-Wilson, A., Murphy, C., Stephenson, P., & Bunting, B.2018-05-162018-05-162018McElearney, A., Brennan-Wilson, A., Murphy, C., Stephenson, P., & Bunting, B. (2018). Cluster randomised controlled trial of ‘whole school’child maltreatment prevention programme in primary schools in Northern Ireland: study protocol for Keeping Safe. BMC public health, 18(1), 590.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934867/?report=classichttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3829Child maltreatment has a pervasive, detrimental impact on children’s wellbeing. Despite a growing focus on prevention through school based education, few programmes adopt a whole- school approach, are multi-component, seek to address all forms of maltreatment, or indeed have been robustly evaluated. This paper describes a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to evaluate a school based child maltreatment prevention programme: ‘Keeping Safe’ in primary schools in Northern Ireland. The intervention has been designed by a non-profit agency. Programme resources include 63 lessons taught incrementally to children between four and 11 years old, and is premised on three core themes: healthy relationships, my body, and being safe. There are programme resources to engage parents and to build the capacity and skills of school staff.enresearchschool based programsInternational ResourcesIrelandpreventionArticle