Our Values
All our work is delivered in line with our organisational values:
Collaborative for success first time, every time
Knowledgeable to ensure the best outcome for you
Personable so that we always work with you, not against
Thorough to ensure work is accurate and complete
Respectful to align your safeguarding arrangements with the integral value of your organisation.
Our Mission
We exist to reduce the risk of abuse, exploitation and harassment by:
Guiding and supporting strategic leaders and safeguarding managers
Driving improvement in organisational safeguarding arrangements including how they listen to their people
Creating ways to empower children and adults at risk
Keep Governance and Safeguarding continues to grow as our customers stay with us, and recommend us to other people. If we get the opportunity to work with you, you tap in to a wealth of skills to support improvement across your safeguarding practice, management and governance including business process analysis and organisational governance and an in depth knowledge of safeguarding.
Motivated by his faith and his desire to fight oppression and injustice, Andy Churcher established KeepSafe in 2015. He says, "with the words of What's the Matter Here? by 10,000 Maniacs and Isaiah 58 v9-11 ringing in my ears since the late 90's I have wanted to protect and support the most vulnerable in whatever way I can". He began to align his work with his passion and KeepSafe was created, to help organisations safeguard vulnerable people, whether that be children, adults at risk, students who are away from home for the first time or young sports players who may feel they owe something to those who have supported them.
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01432 655045
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Meet Our Team
I believe that everybody should be able to live, grow and thrive, feeling safe and it is my goal to be part of creating a future in which everybody is protected from abuse, neglect, exploration and harassment by fighting oppression, exploitation and injustice.
My career has taken me through teaching and holistic early help with some of the hardest to reach young people and their families and into business improvement, managing improvement programmes in local government, safeguarding boards and education. I now work with businesses, the Premier League and their clubs, governing bodies, schools, charities and local authorities to train leaders, empower staff, improve process and assess the effectiveness of safeguarding practice.
As lead consultant I deliver much of our programme of work, while supporting our associate consultants (more information about them coming to the website soon) to deliver great products every time.
Andy Churcher
I take the lead on our marketing and digital strategy, with a special focus on creating ways to empower children and adults at risk, in line with our organisational mission. This is a huge area of focus for us at the moment and we are building and delivering on our strategy to become an empowering influence on relevant social media platforms.
I manage all aspects of our marketing, overseeing social media and website development. My creativity and expertise in social media helps Keep Governance and Safeguarding to reach into new markets and customers. I am working towards my Level 3 Multi-channel Marketer qualification with our partners at Creative Alliance, as well as completing her IDTA Freestyle Dance Teaching qualification at Body Language School of Dance. Before joining Keep Governance and Safeguarding, I studied Sociology and Performing Arts.
Lois Churcher
Our Associate Consultants
Keep Governance and Safeguarding engages with a small team of associate consultants. Our associates deliver high quality work on behalf of the business which we rigorously quality assure to ensure our clients always receive the quality they have come to expect from Keep Governance and Safeguarding.
We're proud to support the amazing work of World Vision who, aligned with our ethos and mission, help children in some of the world's most dangerous places. They believe it takes a whole community to create happy and fulfilling childhoods and they work together with communities so they're empowered to do just that.
World Vision's integrated approach includes water, healthcare, education, child protection, and income generation all with the aim of allowing every child to fulfil their God-given potential.
Find out more about this work and how you too could help at www.worldvision.org.uk.