Not on my Watch! LSPs formerly Local Safeguarding Children's Boards were established by the Children Act and assign statutory responsibility to each locality to have a mechanism in place. They bring every locality across the country together to agree on how they will cooperate with one another to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The purpose of this working partnership is to hold each other accountable and to ensure safeguarding children remains high on the agenda across their region.
They have a nominated Local Authority Designated Officer or team in place to offer support and advice to deal with allegations of serious harm in relation to staff members or volunteers. They publish their safeguarding procedures online and offer training to organisations as well.
All childcare providers and adults who look after, or have unsupervised access to children in a childcare provision must be suitable to do so. The Disclosure and Barring Service DBS was created to help prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It is a measure put in place to ensure any person working or volunteering on behalf of an organisation with children has no record of previous harm or risk.
For this reason, all childcare groups must obtain DBS checks from all childcare workers and volunteers. A DBS check does not include criminal records from overseas. The time and effort you will need to spend on meeting that duty increases when you work with children or adults at risk. Read our definition. Need to help people understand why you need more than one approach to safeguarding? Share our video about treating children and adults differently. Help us to improve this page — give us feedback.
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Five reasons to do safeguarding well Abuse, harassment and harm can happen to anyone — people we work with, staff or volunteers. We have a duty to do something about it.
When everyone understands safeguarding and their right to be safe, people who have nowhere else to turn are protected. An organisation that does safeguarding well is an organisation that is trusted. Please note: prison governors and National Offender Management Service have respective responsibility. Senior representatives of these services may sit on the Safeguarding Adults Board and play an important role in the strategic development of adult safeguarding locally. They may alternatively ask for advice from the local authority when faced with a safeguarding issue that they are finding particularly challenging.
See also Consent in Safeguarding Enquiries. It is always essential in safeguarding to consider whether the adult is capable of giving informed consent in all aspects of their life. If they are able, their consent should be sought and where appropriate recorded. See also Transition to Adult Services. This may be, for example, when a young person with substantial and complex needs continues to be supported in a residential educational setting until the age of It is not the level of needs that is relevant where there is a safeguarding concern.
The young adult does not need to have eligible needs for care and support or be receiving any particular service from the local authority, in order for the safeguarding duty to apply, so long as the set conditions are met. It engages the person in a conversation about how best to respond to their safeguarding situation in a way that enhances involvement, choice and control as well as improving quality of life, wellbeing and safety.
Staff should strive to deliver effective safeguarding consistently in line with the six principles of safeguarding see Section 2, Principles. They should ensure that the adult has accessible information so that the adult can make informed choices about safeguarding: what it means, risks and benefits and possible consequences. Staff will need to clearly define the various options to help support them to make a decision about their safety. There are, however, key issues that local authorities and their partners should consider see Stage 2: Screening and Initial Decision Making, Section 2, Information Gathering.
This form allows staff to confirm they have read chapters in this APPP. This can be useful for newly employed staff as part of their induction, supervision, CPD and for team discussions for example. When you complete and submit the form, the information will be entered on a system that can be accessed by managers. Introduction 1. Principles of Adult Safeguarding 3. Aims of Adult Safeguarding 4.
Values 5. The information submitted above will not be given to any third parties.
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