Safeguarding at Prepsters Tutors
Prepsters Tutors provides young, at-risk, economically challenged students with online, peer-to-peer tutoring in a safe and friendly environment. We take care to ensure our students and tutors are protected from harm.
All Prepster's Tutors
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Receive support and guidance from our advisory team of education professionals
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Are vetted for their academic accomplishments
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Are required to complete certified safeguarding training
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​Hold Enhanced DBS checks
Prepsters Tutoring Safeguarding Policy
Purpose
Our charitable activities include working with students who may be at-risk. The purpose of this policy is to protect the students and our volunteer tutors and to provide stakeholders and the public with the overarching principles that guide our approach in doing so. ​
Applicability
This policy applies to anyone working on our behalf or benefiting from our services.
Principles
We believe that:
• No one who is involved in our work should ever experience abuse, harm, neglect or exploitation.
• Our organisation’s management team has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all of our beneficiaries and volunteers, and to keep them safe and to work in a way that protects them.
• We all have a collective responsibility for creating a culture in which our team and service users not only feel safe, but are also able to speak up, if there are concerns.
Types of Abuse
Abuse can take many forms, such as physical, psychological or emotional, financial, sexual or institutional abuse, including neglect and exploitation.
Reporting Concerns
If a crime is in progress, or an individual in immediate danger, call 999, as you would in any other circumstances.
If you are a beneficiary, or member of the public, make your concerns known to a member of our team.
For our volunteers, you should make your concerns known to your supervisor. If you feel unable to do so, speak to a member of the senior team.
The trustees are mindful of their reporting obligations to the Charity Commission in respect of Serious Incident Reporting and, if applicable, other regulator. They are aware of the Government guidance on handling safeguarding allegations.
Responsibilities
Our management committee has a duty to:
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Create a culture of respect, in which everyone feels safe and able to speak up.
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Review the safeguarding policy annually and make regular recommendations when appropriate.
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Provide oversight of any lapses in safeguarding.
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And ensure that any safeguarding issues that arise are properly investigated and dealt with quickly, fairly and sensitively, and any reporting to the Police/statutory authorities is carried out.
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Lead the organisation in way that makes everyone feel safe and able to speak up.
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Ensure safeguarding risk assessments are carried out and appropriate action taken to minimise these risks, as part of our risk management processes.
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Ensure that all relevant checks are carried out in recruiting advisors and volunteers.
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Plan programmes/activities to take into account potential safeguarding risks, to ensure these are adequately mitigated.
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Ensure that all appointments that require DBS clearance and safeguarding training are identified, including the level of DBS and any training required.
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Ensuring that a central register is maintained and subject to regular monitoring to ensure that DBS clearances and training are kept up-to-date.
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Ensuring that safeguarding requirements (eg DBS) and responsibilities are reflected in job descriptions, appraisal objectives and personal development plans, as appropriate.
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Listening and engaging, beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and others and involving them as appropriate. Responding to any concerns sensitively and acting quickly to address these.
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Ensuring that personal data is stored and managed in a safe way that is compliant with data protection regulations, including valid consent to use any imagery or video
Making staff, volunteers and others aware of:
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Our safeguarding procedures and their specific safeguarding responsibilities on induction, with regular updates/reminders, as necessary.
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The signs of potential abuse and how to report these.
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To be aware of our procedures, undertake any necessary training, be aware of the risks and signs of potential abuse and, if you have concerns, to report these immediately (see above).