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Ensuring Your Project Activities are Safe
Sally ProudloveChild Protection in Sport Unit
Child Protection in Sport Unit
Mission:
To build the capacity of sport to safeguard children and young people in and through sport to enable sport to lead the way in
keeping children safe from harm.
All organisations providing services for children, parents or families, or work with children, should have in place
Safeguarding & PromotingChildren’s Welfare
Culture of listeningto and consulting with
children
Effective recruitment,selection & contractual procedures
including safeguarding checks
Clear lines of accountability
Senior board lead onsafeguarding
Arrangements to share information with
other organisations
Effective support, supervision and training
for staff/volunteers
Clear safeguarding policies including how to respond to concerns
in line with LSCB requirements
Designated safeguarding lead (with support)
Working Together to Safeguard
Children (2013) Section 2.4
Duty of care
• Legal Duty of Care – focus on health and safety• Moral Duty of Care – responsibility for safety and welfare.
The duty upon an organisation to take all reasonable to ensure that individuals will be safe to participate in activities for which it is responsible
There is a higher duty of care owed to children and young people
Question…….
At what point does your duty of care begin?
1. Safeguarding plan
2. Recruitment guidelines
3. Codes of conduct
4. Registration and consent
5. Event manager/coordinator
6. Event safeguarding lead
7. Reporting procedures
8. Advice and support
9. Additional vulnerabilities 10. Travel and overnight stays
Case studies
Slide 10Legislative changeSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006• created the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)• created new Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) and replaced
existing barring lists with single, independent system.
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012•Combined the CRB and ISA into the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)•Redefined regulated activity•Single disclosure of checks•Continuously updated service
Regulated Activity (RA) before 10 September 2012
Permitted but did not legally require sports
organisations to undertake enhanced CRB
checks (including barring status) as part of
safe recruitment practice. Roles that
never met
eligibility
criteria for
checks
Regulated Activity (RA) from 10 September 2012
Revised RA def’n. Eligible for DBS
check and a barred list check which - a legal requirement.
Permits DBS checking of those formerly in (but now not in) RA - but
not a barred list check
Checks for both groups can be for
work with children, adults at risk or
both
Roles that
never met
eligibility
criteria for
checks
Criminal Records Checks:What hasn’t changed?
• Organisations’ wider safeguarding responsibilities• Duty to refer concerns• Illegal to seek RA work if barred• Illegal to knowingly employ a barred person in RA• Still a body (now DBS) assessing risk and making
barring decisions
Criminal Records Checks:What has changed?• Revised definition of Regulated Activity
(frequency, intensity of contact and supervision)• Revised (reduced) eligibility criteria (under 16s
excluded, number of roles/titles reduced)• Two tiers of checks (with or without Barred List
status)• Applicant only disclosure• Online status check service
All clear so far?
Online Disclosure Status Checking Scheme• Annual service requiring individual’s subscription (within two weeks
of issue of DBS disclosure) • Free for volunteers• Provides option for individual to give any eligible employer ability to
check status of DBS disclosure• Status check undertaken electronically• Outcome describes changes (or not) to disclosure – not what new
information is• Changes prompt organisation to undertake new DBS check• Organisations need to decide to require use of scheme, not to use
scheme, or optional for staff/volunteers.
Child Protection in Sport Unit
www.thecpsu.org.uk
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