What does safeguarding mean?
Safeguarding means protecting the health, well being and human rights of children and adults enabling them to live safely, free from abuse and neglect.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility
What is safeguarding?
The two key principles of safeguarding are:
- Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility – for services to be effective, each profession and organisation should play their full part.
- A learner-centred approach – for services to be effective, they should be based on a clear understanding of the needs and views of Learners (HM Government: Working Together to Safeguard Children – A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children – March 2015)
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Where a child is suffering significant harm, or is likely to do so, action should be taken to protect that child (DoE: Keeping Children Safe in Education – Statutory guidance for schools and colleges – July 2015)
We also recognise that we have a statutory and moral duty to promote and safeguard the welfare of vulnerable adults receiving education and training at the company.
A whole organisation approach
The Training Brokers are committed to a whole organisation approach to Safeguarding. Certain people have key responsibilities, but it is everyone’s responsibility to keep learners safe.
There are three main elements to our policy
- Prevention: providing safe physical and on-line environments, careful and vigilant teaching, accessible pastoral care, support for learners and good adult role models; raising e-safety awareness
- Protection: providing training, support and clear procedures to enable staff to respond appropriately and sensitively to safeguarding and child protection concerns, and ensuring that our company’s IT infrastructure and network are safe and secure.
- Support: providing help and support to young people and vulnerable adults who do not feel safe or may have been abused.