Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Tutor Update Day
16th May 2012
Key topics
 SPC products
 Other training developments
 Legislation updates
 New resources
 Ideas, issues, questions?
SPC products
Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Safeguarding & Protecting Children 2: Reflecting on
practice
Safeguarding & Protecting Children 16-18
Keeping Safe in Sport; safeguarding for young volunteers
(13+)
(Safeguarding & Protecting Children for officials)
Other training developments
 Awareness raising training, e.g. Educare
 Basic level training, e.g. SPC, LSCB courses
 Specialist training, e.g. Time To Listen, sport
specific courses for various roles
Legislation updates
All organisations providing services for children, parents or
families, or working with children, should have in place:
Priorities in strategic
policy documents &
commissioning strategies
Senior management
commitment to
safeguarding
Clear lines of accountability
Effective recruitment,
selection & contractual procedures
including
safeguarding checks
Safeguarding policies
including CP policy and
complaints procedures in line
with LSCB arrangements
Safeguarding & Promoting
Children’s Welfare
Procedures for dealing
with allegations against
staff / volunteers
Arrangements for staff /
volunteer training
Whistle blowing
procedures and culture
Arrangements to work with
other organisations
including information sharing
Culture of listening
to and consulting with
children
Understand how to work
together to address
online/new technology
risks
Working Together to Safeguard
Children (2010) Section 2.11
Roles and Responsibilities – Sports
Organisations and Statutory Agencies
Sports Organisations NGBs, Sports Partnerships, Clubs etc
Staff/volunteer
Awareness /
Recognition
Reporting
Arrangements
Complaints /
Disciplinary Processes
Statutory Agencies Referral
Process
to
Children’s
Social Care
or
Police
Info
Sharing
Children’s Social Care, Police, LADO.
Strategy
Meeting
Assessment
Intervention
Investigation
Child Protection
Conference / Plan
Criminal / Care Proceedings
Sports Organisation’s Child
Protection Policies and Procedures
© - NSPCC CPSU
LADO
involvement
LSCB Child Protection Policies and
Procedures
Current CRB/ISA arrangements
• Eligibility and process for CRB not changed
• Eligibility links to same definition of Regulated Activity
(role types, intensity and frequency of contact), but…….
• CRB and police are checking eligibility more robustly –
more applications being challenged
Current CRB/ISA arrangements
• Clearer options for anyone not convinced their employer
has right to seek CRB disclosure (b/w written explanation
of how post is eligible)
• ISA still making decisions of who should be barred –
children and vulnerable adults lists
• Organisations still have duty to refer to ISA when deeming
employee or volunteer unsuitable to work with children
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
• When rolled out will introduce a series of changes,
including:
• Secondary legislation needed to implement these
changes
• Introduction merger of CRB & ISA into single Disclosure
and Barring Service (DBS) late 2012
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
• Re-defined Regulated Activity (RA)
• Overall fewer of roles included in RA (paid & voluntary)
but with legal requirement for CRB disclosure (including
barred status)
• Wider group of roles (the remainder of current RA) eligible
for CRB disclosure but not barred status information
• CRB disclosures to be issued to applicant only, though…
• Registered Body to be informed when check is issued and
if it is clear
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
• Supervised individuals not in RA – definition: ‘such day to
day supervision as is reasonable in all the circumstances for
the purpose of protecting any children concerned’
• Option for individuals to register for Criminal Records
Status Check service
• With individual’s permission allows employers to check
CRB disclosure status (not details) online
• Annual subscription fee (tba); cost (if any) to volunteers tba
• Guidance to be issued
Current system
Current definition of Regulated
Activity (RA) permits but does not
legally require sports organisations
to undertake CRB checks (including
barring status) as part of safe
practice.
Proposed system (2013 on)
Present definition of RA:
-Eligible for CRB check but not
barring check
-Children and/or vulnerable adult
Revised definition of
RA.
CRB & barring check
(children and/or VA)
becomes a legal
requirement
Criminal Records Status Check available
for both groups but only at equivalent
levels
Good practice in safe recruitment
includes:
 Job/role description and person specification
 Clear communication about expectations
 Interview and references
 Self declaration form } where
 CRB check
} relevant
 Induction
 Probationary period
Additional vulnerability
• Elite athletes
• Athletes from minority ethnic groups
• Deaf and disabled athletes
Safeguarding deaf and disabled
children in sport
 NSPCC multimedia learning resource for
sports clubs and organisations
 Supports organisations fulfil their
safeguarding responsibilities towards deaf
and disabled participants
Ideas?
Issues?
Questions?
www.thecpsu.org.uk
cpsu@nspcc.org.uk
0116 2347278