Everyone who works with children/young people – including Voluntary, Community & Faith Sector Workers – has a responsibility for keeping them safe.
Voluntary, Community, Faith and Private Sector organisations play an important role in delivering services to children/young people. They should have safeguarding arrangements in place to keep children and young people safe, and need to work effectively with the Harrow Safeguarding & Children Board (HSCB) to ensure this. Paid and volunteer staff need to be aware of their responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and attend safeguarding training. This should enable workers to identify child protection concerns and have the confidence to make referrals to local authority children’s services or the police.
How can we help?
We are supporting this work by offering *free certified training in:
- Level 2 Safeguarding (this is offered as multi agency or In House Training)
- Children & Young Peoples Forum (for the Safeguarding Leads (NSP/DSL) in organisations)
- Level 3 Nominated Safeguarding Person (NSP)(DSL) training
- Referrals for the Local Authority Designated Officer Training (LADO)
- Bi Monthly Safeguarding Newsletter
- One-to-one support clinics for organisations by looking at their existing child protection policies, updating existing policies, and giving advice, support and guidance with referrals to the Children’s Services.
An organisation check list is available to help organisations to identify any gaps in safeguarding that may need to addressed.
*free to not for profit organisations operating/working in Harrow
What’s New: Harrow Mental Health Partnership
5 – 25 years old Visit Young Harrow Foundation website for more details on the Mental Health Hub
Harrow Safeguarding Children’s Board Training can be booked via SS4e details are below:
Information on training dates including booking details and support tools can be found on: SSe4 you will need to register on SSe4 to access training. Register here.
Pan London Training:
Talking to young People about Mental Health
Date: 11/09/2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Modern Day Slavery Act 2015, how to identify those vulnerable to exploitation
Date: 20/09/2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
The Journey of an NRM referral using a domestic servitude case study
Date: 20/09/2023
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
The Identification of Child Exploitation in the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015
Date: 21/09/2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Date: 21/09/2023
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 –
The sessions can be found on the LSCP website
https://www.londonscb.gov.uk/
Further information resources:
- Link to the NSPCC Self Assessment Tool
- Harrow Safeguarding Children/Young People Board Website
- Harrow Safeguarding Adult Board
- Safeguarding Children/Young People – Green Book 2019 – 20 includes safeguarding children/young people policy/procedure document template
- Domestic Abuse Support
- Safeguarding for Charities -Charity Commission Guidance
- Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Safeguarding Fact Sheet