Safeguard Policy

Purpose

Active Aid Fitness Academy is committed to safeguarding all learners who attend our programmes. The purpose of this policy is to develop good practice for all learners about whom we may have particular concerns regarding their health, safety or welfare. The policy applies to all learners and includes, although is not exclusive to the following adults over 18 years of age who may be at risk, regardless of age, class, ethnicity, gender, marital status, religion or belief, disability, sexual orientation or gender reassignment.

Definitions

The definition of an adult or young person at risk for the purpose of this policy is those who are over 16 years of age and includes:

Principles of Safeguarding

If you believe that someone is vulnerable to being exploited or involved in violent extremism, please use the following safeguarding duty or care procedures and escalate your concerns to the person responsible for safeguarding.

Procedures Staff are Expected to Follow

If you see or hear something or if you are given information that causes you concern about a learner’s health, safety, welfare, or behaviour you should not ignore it.

What you should do:

• Stay calm.
• If it is a medical emergency or a situation of immediate danger, call the relevant emergency service(s) straight away. You do not need anyone’s permission to do this. Otherwise, ask the learner whether they feel that they are, or that anyone else is, at immediate risk.
• Ensure that the learner’s basic needs are met, enlisting others to help if necessary and if you need to stay with the learner.
• Listen to anything the learner may want to tell you.
• Take notes of what is said and what you observe, at the time or immediately after.
• Pass the information on to designated person responsible for safeguarding (the member of staff with lead responsibility for issues concerning adults at risk) at the earliest opportunity.
• Inform the learner that you are doing this and that their views and wishes will be taken into account.

Responsibilities

All those working with learners at or for Active Aid Fitness Academy have a duty to comply with this policy. One member of Active Aid Fitness Academy will be designated to take lead responsibility for issues concerning adults at risk. Except in an emergency, all concerns should be communicated them so that they can decide what action, if any, to take. As the designated member of staff, they should make themselves aware of any ‘multi-agency’ procedures operating locally and involve relevant health.