Safeguarding Policy Statement – Safeguarding of Young People and Vulnerable Adults
The company:
- recognises that young people and vulnerable adults have a fundamental right to be protected from harm, exploitation and discrimination, and that learners cannot learn effectively unless they feel safe;
- will provide an environment that promotes equality, self-confidence, a feeling of worth and the knowledge that learners’ concerns are listened to and acted upon;
- is committed to ensuring that best practice is adopted when working with all young people and vulnerable adults, offering them support and protection, and accepts that it has a legal and moral responsibility to implement procedures to fulfil its duty of care, to safeguard their wellbeing and to protect them from abuse;
- will ensure that all staff understand the importance of working in partnership with learners, their employers/ parents / carers and others in order to promote and safeguard the welfare of all learners;
- will follow the ‘Safeguarding Children Partnership’ (SCP), which replaced the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) inter-agency procedures and legislative and statutory guidance.