Introduction
All staff working with children and vulnerable adults have a legal duty to work together to protect them from harm or abuse. Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd Safeguarding lead has overall responsibility for the safeguarding of learners, and is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of all work done to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people on programme. Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd Policy covers:
- The recruitment and employment of staff working with vulnerable adults and the provision of a safe learning environment under the requirements
- Training & Development Manager & HR department are responsible for ensuring that Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd follows safer recruitment procedures. This includes carrying out Disclosure and Baring checks on all staff working with vulnerable learners every three years. This also applies where staffs have already been checked by a previous employer.
Statement of Intent
Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd first priority is to ensure the safety and protection of all learners taking part in learning. In order to protect young people and vulnerable adults from harm we will act in accordance with the following legislation and guidance: ‘No Secrets’ DH 2000
Definitions
Safeguarding The term “safeguarding” describes the broader preventative and precautionary approach to planning and procedures that are necessary to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults from any potential harm or damage.
Safeguarding means:
- Protection from abuse and neglect
- Promotion of health and development
- Ensuring safety and care relating to the environment and activity
- Ensuring optimum life chances
‘Child’ or ‘Young Adult’ An individual is considered to be a child or young person up to their 18th birthday ‘Vulnerable Adult’ A Vulnerable adult is any person aged 18 or over ‘who is, or may be in need of, community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness and who is, or may be, unable to take care of him or herself or protect him or herself against significant harm or exploitation’ (‘No Secrets’ DH 2000).
Policy Statement
Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd is committed to promoting safeguarding through the provision of an inclusive, supportive and safe environment for its learners, staff and others closely associated with its work and affirms the rights of individuals to be treated fairly and with respect. Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd intends to pursue this commitment by
Promoting a culture of value and respect for all within a supportive and safe learningenvironment
- Ensure that all internal tutoring staff, and learning and personal support staff in contact with learners have a current Disclosure and Barring check for working with adults and/or children o
- Provide accessible information for learners, tutoring staff and subcontracting providers on equality, diversity, bullying, harassment, dignity and respect in the learning environment o
- We will provide opportunities for adults and young people to voice any concerns they may have regarding inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment or misconduct and providing strong sanctions to deter victimisation or cover up of malpractice
- Supply information to learners on Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd procedures for following up complaints relating to the conduct of tutoring staff and/or other learners
- Require all tutoring staff and others associated with the delivery of our provision to carry and produce appropriate identification on request
- Ensure that premises used to deliver learning activities are risk assessed by appropriately trained staff
- Ensure that learning activities are risk assessed by appropriately trained staff
- Ensure that care and safety issues and concerns are reported
Providing Information, training and briefings on safeguarding vulnerable adults andchildren that includes:
- Include information on Safeguarding as part of learner induction
- Provide information to tutoring staff and learners about the standards we expect with regard to confidentiality and disclosure
- Provide appropriate training for tutoring staff on safeguarding, disclosure and diversity matters
- Distribute information to all internal on the signs of abuse and the action to take if/when abuse is reported.
- Provide accessible information for learners, and tutoring staff on the complaint’s procedure
- Provide headline information for learners on safeguarding, e-safety, bullying and harassment equality of opportunity and diversity.
- Provide learners with the name of the designated safeguarding contact and the procedure to be followed in the case of any alleged case of bullying or harassment
Gathering and analysing information from learners on matters related to feeling safe in the learning environment
- Generate questions on the feedback form to elicit how safe learners feel in thelearning environment
- Analyse the information obtained and acting on the results
Monitoring the effectiveness of this Safeguarding Policy and reviewing it annually
- Monitor the safeguarding practices within provision
- Identify and sharing good practice in safeguarding with subcontracted providers
- Review the Global Vertex Training Centre Ltd safeguarding policy on an annual basis
- Link with learning networks and the local authority safeguarding unit to ensure that information on safeguarding is current and up to date