Safeguarding
Procedures
The Safeguarding Team
The Clarendon
Centre
Matt Carvel
The
Villas
Jac Spear
The
Oasis
Steve Horne
The Shoreham
Centre
Mike Spence
Emmanuel is committed to the safeguarding of children and adults with care and support needs and ensuring their well-being.
• We recognise that we all have a responsibility to help prevent the physical, sexual, psychological, financial and discriminatory abuse and neglect of adults at risk of harm and abuse and to report any such abuse that we discover or suspect.
• We recognise that the personal dignity and rights of adults and will ensure all our policies and procedures will reflect this.
• We believe all adults should enjoy and have access to every aspect of the life of Emmanuel.
• We undertake to exercise proper care in the appointment and selection of those who will work with children and adults with care and support needs.
• We believe every child should be valued, safe and happy. We want to make sure that children we have contact with know this and are empowered to tell us if they are experiencing significant harm.
We are committed to:
• Following statutory and specialist guidelines in relation to safeguarding children and adults and will ensure that at Emmanuel all workers will work within the agreed procedure of our safeguarding policy.
• Implementing the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005, Equality Act 2010 and all other relevant legislation.
• Supporting, resourcing and training those who undertake this work.
• Ensuring that we are keeping up to date with national and local developments relating to Safeguarding.
• Ensuring that everyone agrees to abide by these recommendations and the guidelines established by Emmanuel.
• Supporting all in Emmanuel affected by abuse.
We recognise:
• Children’s Social Services has lead responsibility for investigating all allegations or suspicions of abuse where there are concerns about a child. Adult Social Care has lead responsibility for investigating all allegations or suspicions of abuse where there are concerns about an adult with care and support needs.
• Where an allegation suggests that a criminal offence may have been committed then the police should be contacted as a matter of urgency.
• Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.
Requirements
A Leader in each room to take responsibility of running the room and team.
Team member needs to have a current DBS checked and have completed Safeguarding Training or the Safeguarding Refresher Course
Minimum of two team members per room or four if children need to be supervised to leave the room to access the toilet, (so that you always have two team in the room and two supervising the children outside the room.)
Team will need to be aware of how near and accessible the toilets are for the children in each session and how much assistance they will need to use them. There may be a need for potty and or steps to help smaller children.
Team numbers need to increase as the number of children increases inline with best practice.
All Kids and Team will be registered and checked in/out for the session, which is a requirement of our Safeguarding Policy, and available in the event of an emergency evacuation.
All accidents and incidents to be recorded on the online Emmanuel Kids Accident Log
The Requirements above for Emmanuel Kids are in addition to the individual Age Group Guidelines for Emmanuel Kids, which can be found here . This document contains sections from Emmanuel’s safeguarding policy that every kids and youth worker must read.
The full policy, for your reference, is available on the home page menu in ‘MyChurchSuite’.