Safeguarding Statement

Core Safeguarding Principles

T15 acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice that reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice requirements. All children and vulnerable adults, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, sexual orientation or identity, have the right to equal protection from all types of harm or abuse.

T15 is committed to ensuring their work is consistent with safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

All candidates placed by T15 are expected to take all reasonable steps to ensure they are alert to possible child abuse and neglect, and to familiarise themselves with arrangements for safeguarding children in the schools or training centres where they are placed.

Safeguarding Aims & Objectives

T15’s compliance checks, policies and processes are designed to meet the above principles by ensuring that:

• Those who are known to be unsuitable do not gain access to children or vulnerable adults
• Those who become unsuitable are detected at the earliest stage and prevented from continuing to work with children and vulnerable adults
• Those who intend to do harm are prevented at every possible stage from entering the workforce
• It is as simple as possible for an individual to report that they are being harmed or feel at risk of being harmed
• Clear procedures will be implemented where child protection issues arise
• Effective management is provided for staff, temp workers and candidates through support and training
• All compliance checks are made on staff, temp workers and candidates in line with T15’s Standard Recruitment & Compliance Process
• T15 stays up to date with developments on safeguarding best practice, reporting and auditing our safeguarding activities
• Those who are identified as being at risk of abuse are afforded every practicable protection by T15 and our clients and partners
• T15 will report any concerns regarding any individual, or any potential safeguarding situation that it becomes aware of as soon as practicable to the appropriate authority
• At an individual and collective level employees are involved in ensuring Safeguarding is embedded across our services to ensure a whole organisation approach so that individuals are adequately protected

Recruitment – T15’s Sourcing, Screening & Selection Process

T15 are also committed to protecting children and vulnerable adults through a careful sourcing, screening and selection process, a whistle blowing policy and guidance on appropriate behaviour. T15’s rigorous procedures ensure that any candidate found to have a history of unacceptable conduct or practice, will not be placed. We will keep Clients informed of a candidate’s suitability via Candidate Profiles at key stages of the recruitment cycle

As part of our safeguarding, T15 will:

• promote and prioritise the safety and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults
• ensure all candidates undergo a full compliance process
• ensure everyone understands their roles and responsibilities in respect of safeguarding and is provided with appropriate learning opportunities to recognise, identify and respond to signs of abuse, neglect and other safeguarding concerns relating to children and vulnerable adults
• ensure appropriate action is taken in the event of incidents/concerns of abuse and support provided to the individual/s who raise or disclose the concern
• ensure that confidential, detailed and accurate records of all safeguarding concerns are maintained and securely stored
• prevent the engagement of unsuitable individuals
• ensure robust safeguarding arrangements and procedures are in operation

Important Legislation

The principal pieces of legislation governing Safeguarding are:

• Working together to Safeguard Children 2015
• The Children Act 1989
• The Adoption and Children Act 2002
• The Children Act 2004
• Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
• Keeping Children Safe in Education (2016)
• Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 (2015)
• Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (inc. the 'Prevent Duty')
• Modern Slavery Act 2015
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Human Rights Act 1998

Safeguarding Summary

T15 will make clients, candidates, temp workers, staff and employees aware of safeguarding through the following means; Client Terms and Conditions, Candidate Terms, Standard Recruitment & Compliance Process, compliance checks, client and candidate recruitment cycle, external and internal policies, processes, audits and training.

All staff, temp workers and candidates must be aware that they and T15 have a professional duty to share information in order to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. The public interest in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults may override confidentiality interests. However, information will be shared on a need to know basis only, as judged by T15.

Monitoring & Review

Our policies will be reviewed regularly and may be altered from time to time in light of legislative changes or other prevailing circumstances.