Child Safeguarding Self Assessment - Keeping Children Safe

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Policy

The organisation develops a policy that describes how it is committed to preventing and responding appropriately to, harm to children.

Policy 1: The organisation has a written child safeguarding policy, approved by the relevant management body, to which all staff and associates (including partners) are required to adhere:*

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Policy 2: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other Conventions and Guidelines pertaining to children informs the approach of the organisation:*

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Policy 3: The policy is written in a way that is clear, easily understandable and is publicised, promoted and distributed widely to all relevant stakeholders, including children:*

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Policy 4: The organisation is clear that all children have equal rights to protection, and that some children face particular risks and difficulties in getting help, because of their ethnicity, gender, age, religion or belief, disability, or sexual orientation:*

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Policy 5: The policy addresses safeguarding children from harm through misconduct by staff, associates and others, from poor practice, and from its operational activities where these may harm children or put them at risk due to poor design and/or delivery, for example:*

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Policy 6: The organisation makes clear that ultimate responsibility for ensuring the safety of children rests with senior executives (CEO and Directors) and managers:*

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People

The organisation places clear responsibilities and expectations on its people and supports them to understand and act in line with these.

People 1: There are written guidelines for behaviour (Code of Conduct) that provide guidance on appropriate/expected standards of behaviour of adults towards children and of children towards other children:*

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People 2: Recruitment processes have strong child safeguarding checks in place. Recruitment advertisements, interviews and contracts all outline a commitment to child safeguarding:*

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People 3: The organisation is open and aware that when it comes to child safeguarding matters, issues can be easily identified, raised and discussed. All members of staff, volunteers and associates have training on child safeguarding:*

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People 4: Children are made aware of their right to be safe from abuse, and are provided with advice and support on keeping themselves safe, including information for children, parents/carers about where to go:*

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People 5: The organisation designates key people at different levels (including at Director level) as "focal points" with clearly defined responsibilities, to champion, support and communicate on child safeguarding, and for effective operation of child safeguarding:*

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People 6: Partner organisations are required and supported to develop minimum child safeguarding measures appropriate to their organisation:*

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Procedures

The organisation creates a child safe environment through a systematic process of implementing child safeguarding procedures

Procedures 1: The organisation requires local mapping exercises to be carried out that analyse the legal, social welfare, and child protection arrangements in the contexts in which it works:*

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Procedures 2: There is an appropriate process for reporting and responding to child protection incidents and concerns that fits with the local systems for dealing with incidents of child abuse (as identified in the mapping exercise):*

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Procedures 3: The identification and mitigation of child safeguarding risks is incorporated into risk assessment processes at all levels, from identification of corporate risks through to planning an activity involving or impacting on children:*

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Procedures 4: Adequate human and financial resources are made available to support development and implementation of child safeguarding measures:*

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Procedures 5: There are clear procedures in place that provide step-by-step guidance on how to report safely which are linked to the organisation's disciplinary policy and procedures:*

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Procedures 6: Child safeguards are integrated with, and actively managed into existing business processes and systems (strategic planning, budgeting, recruitment, programme cycle management, performance management, procurement, and so on) to ensure safeguarding children is a feature of all key aspects of operations:*

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Accountability

The organisation monitors and reviews its safeguarding measures.

Accountability 1: Arrangements are in place to monitor compliance with, and implementation of, child safeguarding policies and procedures through specific measures and /or integration into existing systems for quality assurance, risk management, audit, monitoring and review:*

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Accountability 2: There is a system of regular reporting to key management forums, including Director level, to track progress and performance on child safeguarding, including information on safeguarding issues and child protection cases:*

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Accountability 3: External or independent bodies such as Boards of Trustees, oversight committees are used to monitor performance in this area and hold senior executives to account in relation to child safeguarding:*

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Accountability 4: Opportunities exist for learning from practical case experience, and this to be fed back into organisational development:*

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Accountability 5: Policies and practices are reviewed at regular intervals and formally evaluated every three years:*

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Accountability 6: Progress, performance, and lessons learned are reported to key stakeholders (management forums and external or independent bodies where relevant) and included in your organisation's annual reports:*

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