by Kate | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Child Protection, Risk Assessment
I appreciate that for many of you, you will probably be fed up to the back teeth about safeguarding audits and risk assessments. They are however, still, a really important part of the work that you do in your organisation. Your risk assessments are really, really...
by Kate | Sep 9, 2020 | Blog, Child Protection
The start of a new year is always a good time to remind ourselves of the basics. As a designated safeguarding lead you will have overall responsibility for child protection. Many of you will follow the process below in your sleep. However, for others of you, it may...
by Kate | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog
This is Sam. He’s a two year old golden retriever and my absolute world (sorry hubby!) Over the lockdown period we have been enjoying long quiet walks. Sometimes we go to the river, but most of his walks have been around the University campus near us. It’s...
by Kate | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, Child Protection, Safeguarding Procedure
Most of the areas to consider with your safeguarding procedure are the same for your safeguarding policy, but there are another five areas that I think you need to consider specifically for your safeguarding procedure. Is it legally compliant? A good place to start...
by Kate | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog, Safeguarding Policy
In this week’s blog we are continuing our journey through the safeguarding audit. This week we are looking at my top 10 areas you need to consider when you are looking at your safeguarding policy. Keep it simple This is my absolute number one when it comes to...
by Kate | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, Safeguarding Policy
In preparation for the new academic year, we’re going to take a look at the top 10 things I think you need to be considering as part of your safeguarding audit. What we will then do over the following weeks is to take each of those in turn and look a little more...
