From supporting Boards to ensuring your safeguarding arrangements are effective, robust and compliant.
We've spent more time than we can remember supporting safeguarding managers and designated safeguarding leads; like many of them are you feeling that you, in your role, are isolated, and usually somewhat misunderstood. Keep Governance and Safeguarding can work alongside you, to deliver specific pieces of work, but also to support you to bridge the gap between you and the Board and grow organisational support for safeguarding.
Audits and Evaluations
Building on experience supporting a range of statutory agencies, service providers and third sector organisations to assess their safeguarding processes and procedures, Keep Governance and Safeguarding provides one-to-one support services and impartial strategic analysis to ensure your organisation is best prepared to safeguard the children it works with.
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The improvement of your safeguarding processes throughout your organisation is paramount in all our work. Keep Governance and Safeguarding can support you to assess the effectiveness of your safeguarding systems through targeted improvement programmes built upon:
Desktop reviews of your procedures including analytical comparison against statutory requirements;
Engagement activities with staff, volunteers and children, young people and adults your organisation works with; and
Analysis of safeguarding concerns within, and referrals made by, your organisation.
Once an improvement programme has been developed in partnership with you, Keep Governance and Safeguarding can continue to support you in monitoring the implementation of agreed improvements and identifying the impact of improvements made.
Contact Keep Governance and Safeguarding to discuss your specific needs so that we can develop a package of support tailored to you and offer you a no-obligation quote for our work. We are also happy to supply you with anonymised examples of our work.
Safeguarding training to meet your statutory responsibilities
If you're looking for safeguarding training, Keep Governance and Safeguarding's experience in delivering to staff across sectors is second to none, and we are proud that we only ever receive positive feedback from our participants; the vast majority rate very good or excellent.
While our DSL training is competitively priced and always exceedingly well rated by learners, our Safeguarding Summits provide a greater level of value for schools and colleges committed to the continued improvement of your safeguarding practice and curriculum
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Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 states "The [DSO] role carries a significant level of responsibility and the postholder should be given the additional time, funding, training, resources, and support needed to carry out the role effectively" and "Any deputy (or deputies) should be trained to the same standard as the designated safeguarding lead" (paragraphs 104 and 105).
Click here to see our dates for DLS, deputies and governor training.
Contact us to discuss training designed specifically for you in your setting
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After delivering scheduled safeguarding training courses to key staff in nurseries, primary and secondary schools, colleges, training providers and universities, our experience tells us that organisations find that they get a better outcome from their training when it is delivered specifically for them and tailored to their organisation. We therefore deliver this training through our Safeguarding Summits.
We've built up a loyal customer base who hold a Safeguarding Summit, facilitated by Keep Governance and Safeguarding every two years to meet this statutory requirement. They train their full safeguarding team and sometimes include one or two governors, at a cost which is less than the price of training three staff members.
The statutory expectations of all organisation working with children or vulnerable adults are that all staff should undergo safeguarding training appropriate to their role. Too often all staff training focuses on the signs and indicators - let's face it, that's the easy part - but our training is focused on developing the "think safeguarding" culture across your staff team, encouraging appropriate conversations to ensure nothing is missed or dismissed.
Our all staff training content includes:What safeguarding children is and the statutory role of all staff
What staff should do if they have concerns about a child, hypothesising and professional conversations
Whistleblowing and what staff should do if they have concerns about safeguarding systems or another adult in school
Types of safeguarding, safeguarding issues and the indicators of abuse
“Safeguarding is effective. Leaders commissioned an audit of their safeguarding culture because they want to keep vigilant and make sure all its actions are as secure as they can be. Governors are overseeing the implementation of this audit and have regular contact with the designated safeguarding officer and his team.”
Policy Development
Ensuring your safeguarding work is clearly documented and coherent
All organisations working with children or vulnerable adults have a role to play in safeguardingand have statutory expectations on them, either through
Working Together to Safeguard Children, the Care Act 2014 or the
Specific expectations of the charities' regulators across the UK.
One of these expectations is that organisations have appropriate policies to support safeguarding practice. Often developed over time and sometimes left to go out of date, these policies do not always reflect practice and work together coherently.
We can review your policies based on your practice and sector best practice in order to develop your policy suite.
Feeling isolated or somewhat misunderstood in your role?
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With extensive experience providing support for safeguarding leaders, including Heads of Safeguarding and Board members with responsibility for safeguarding at some of the Premier League's top Clubs or the Trustees of National Charities, we are well placed to help your leaders effectively discharge their responsibilities while ensuring your operational arrangements are robust.
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In recent years we have seen the start of company directors being found guilty for not protecting vulnerable people in their care at the same time as statutory guidance is putting new responsibilities on Boards. Whether you are a Governor in education, a Non-Executive Director of a company or a Charity Trustee, we are here to provide tailored support to you.
For whole Boards, we provide Safeguarding Governance and Leadership Training which covers key areas of organisational responsibility including:The safeguarding landscape and organisational culture
Key roles and responsibilities and the prioritisation of safeguarding
Developing Board oversight to support effective safeguarding governance
For Board members with responsibility for safeguarding we are a trusted adviser, to walk with you through your safeguarding responsibilities and provide confidence that you are providing effective oversight of safeguarding. We provide this service to Board members at some of the Premier League's top Clubs, school governors and the Trustees of national charities and can provide it to you in your role.
We build a relationship with you while taking a strategic perspective of your organisation, ensuring your safeguarding work is effective and protects your people.