For Clubs, Groups & ProjectsChild Protection and Safe Working Practices
Ensuring that your youth club, group or project is a safe and suitable environment for young people is one of the most important challenges facing any group of youth workers.
Youth Clubs Hampshire and Isle of Wight have many years of experience in dealing with questions about Child Protection and Safe Working Practises which we are always willing to share with our members.
We offer telephone and email support to all our members on these matters as well as incorporating these topics into our Youth Worker Development Programme too. We are also more than happy to come out and talk to you in person about policies and procedures or to review your existing documents.
We can help you to write and implement many different policies and guidelines that will all contribute towards creating youth clubs, groups and projects that are safe for young people.
So, whether you’re reviewing existing policies or writing new ones why not give us a call or send us an email if you need a bit of extra help or support?
Here are some of the policies you should think about having in place:
Child Protection
Duty of Care
Health and Safety
Risk Assessment
Fire Regulations
Staff Recruitment, Vetting and CRB Checks
(Criminal Records Bureau)
First Aid Policy
Equal Opportunities Policy
What’s one of the most common pieces of advice we give people about policies? A policy is no good unless everyone’s read and understood it. Why not use your team meetings as a time to revisit your policies and make sure everyone’s up to date?
In our newsletter we regularly feature articles about Safe Working Practises. Why not download a copy from our homepage to find out the latest news and advice?
Allowing young people access to information about who they can turn to for help and support is also a good idea as they may have a problem they're not comfortable to share with someone they know. Why not download and print out this booklet and put it on the wall at your club, group or project?
Child Protection Resources
Safeguarding Code of Good Practice
A resource pack to help your write or review Child Protection policies and procedures
List of Online Resources from Working Together Online
Full ‘Working Together To Safeguard Children ’ Document
Children and Young People’s Act 2008
4 Local Safeguarding Children Boards (4LSCB)
When we work with young people, we occasionally take on a Duty of Care for them: this occurs only in those instances were we are responsible for those young people 'in loco parentis' such as during a residential event. However, durnig most of our work with young people the Duty of Care lies with the youth club, group or project they are attending,
There are also certain things that we can't keep confidential if a young person tells them to us. We describe these in our Statement on Confidentiality.