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Child Protection
Child protection covers many areas
Note :- The first point above is the reason for minimal information relating to contacts, meeting times and location being available online, but we are happy to provide these via email or phone. This is due to the guidelines provided by the scout association to ensure the safety and security of the young people in our care Adult Training Before any potential leader or section assistant (parent helper) is allowed contact with the children they have to
These requirements mean that all leaders and helpers have a reasonable understanding of issues relating to child protection and have been background checked and ensures that everything that can be reasonably done has been done to ensure the safety of the children / young persons in our care. In addition to this all adults and young leaders (who are suitably trained explorer scouts) work to the scout associations young persons first guidelines (the yellow card) which are listed below. These guidelines are in place not only to protect the children / young persons while in our care but also to protect the leaders and helpers by ensuring they do not place themselves in situations which may be misinterpreted by the children in their care or other people present. They are common sense and good manners but on occasions require just an extra bit of thought to ensure they a carried out and situations which could be misinterpreted are avoided full information at scoutbase, below is the main points Scout Association's Young People First Code of behaviour
Do treat everyone with respect Do provide an example you wish others to follow Do plan activities, which involve more than one other person being present, or at least are within sight or hearing of others Do respect a young person's right to personal privacy Do have separate sleeping accommodation for leaders and young people Do provide access for young people to talk about any concerns they may have Do encourage young people and adults to feel comfortable and caring enough to point out attitudes or behaviour they do not like Do avoid situations that compromise your relationship with young people and are unacceptable within a relationship of trust (e.g. a sexual relationship between a leader and a youth member over the age of consent) Do remember that someone else might misinterpret your actions, no matter how well-intentioned Do recognise that caution is required even in sensitive moments of counselling, such as when dealing with bullying, bereavement or abuse Do NOT permit abusive peer activities (e.g. initiation ceremonies, ridiculing, bullying) Do NOT play physical contact games with young people Do NOT have any inappropriate physical or verbal contact with others Do NOT jump to conclusions about others without checking facts Do NOT allow yourself to be drawn into inappropriate attention seeking behaviour such as tantrums or crushes Do NOT show favouritism to any individual Do NOT make suggestive remarks or gestures, even in fun Do NOT let suspicion, disclosure or allegation of abuse, go unrecorded or unreported Do NOT rely on just your good name to protect you Do NOT believe "it could never happen to me"
click the link below to have a leader contact you. Please include your name, contact details (either phone, post or email) and your query. A leader will get back to you as quickly as possible, please bear in mind this may take up to a week as we are all volunteers and have day time jobs as well |
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