Safeguarding

Safeguarding

Our approach is based upon respect for all and an unreserved commitment to safety, fairness and equality of opportunity, especially for young people under the age of 18 and vulnerable adults. We will work with employers to provide a safe and secure environment within which all learners can work and learn and we will make every effort to identify any learner at risk of suffering harm during their involvement with our programmes and once identified we will initiate appropriate action to keep them safe.

Safeguarding is a vitally important part of teaching and learning especially when working with those under the age of 18 (who are legally classed as children).

Safeguarding falls mainly under the key outcome of ‘Stay Safe’ within the Every Child Matters programme and can be summarised as:

• Protecting children from maltreatment
• Preventing impairment of children’s health or development
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• Undertaking the role so as to enable children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully

Cheynes Training has developed a ‘Code of Conduct’ for all trainers, assessors and Regional Training Advisors to follow, the basic principle of this code is that no person involved with a Cheynes Training programme should exploit their role to gain inappropriate access to children, young people or vulnerable adults. We ask every trainer, assessor and Regional Training Advisor to sign a declaration that they will abide by the Code of Conduct.

The role of the Candidate in safeguarding is extremely important. If you have any concerns or queries about anything you have experienced personally or you have seen or been informed of relating to any safeguarding issue then you must immediately speak to your employer, your manager, the Head of Centre at your salon or your Regional Training Advisor. You may also speak in confidence to the Programme Manager, please click on sarah@cheynestraining.com or telephone Sarah Wilson on 0131 476 7100. Please remember that protecting yourself helps to protect the welfare of others.