{"id":434,"date":"2015-07-01T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/eycsproviders\/?page_id=434"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:10:37","slug":"committee-safeguarding-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/for-providers\/safeguarding\/committee-safeguarding-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee Safeguarding Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The committee are responsible for ensuring that the setting has effective safeguarding policies and procedures in accordance with the requirements in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foundationyears.org.uk\/eyfs-statutory-framework\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devonscp.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership (Devon SCP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proceduresonline.com\/swcpp\/\" rel=\"noopener\">South West Child protection Procedures (SWCPP)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neither the Committee or the individual governors should have a role in dealing with individual cases or the right to know the details of individual cases (except when exercising their disciplinary functions in respect of the allegations against a member of staff).<\/p>\n<p>It is recommended that the Committee have an individual committee member to champion safeguarding\/child protection issues within the setting.<\/p>\n<h3>Role of the Committee Safeguarding Champion<\/h3>\n<p>Undertake the Group 2 Safeguarding Children Awareness training and ensure that the committee have the knowledge and information needed to perform their functions and understand their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The role would take responsibility for ensuring that the setting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has child protection policy and procedures in place that are in accordance with DCFP and EYFS<\/li>\n<li>operates safe recruitment procedures and make sure that all the appropriate checks are carried out on staff and volunteers<\/li>\n<li>has procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against members of staff and volunteers that comply with DCFP and EYFS<\/li>\n<li>has a member of staff who is the Designated Safeguarding Lead (this does not have to be the the Playleader \/ Manager). The Designated Safeguarding Lead must undertake inter-agency safeguarding Group 3 training<\/li>\n<li>ensures that all staff have undertaken the appropriate safeguarding training at least Group 2 Safeguarding Awareness and this kept up to date every 3 years<\/li>\n<li>remedies without delay any deficiencies or weaknesses in regard to safeguarding arrangements that are brought to their attention<\/li>\n<li>review their policies and procedures annually<\/li>\n<li>liaise with the Playleader \/ Manager and Safeguarding Designated Officer and provide reports to the Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Early Years and Childcare Service now have a safeguarding and safer recruitment self audit tool which can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/for-providers\/safeguarding\/safeguarding-self-audits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safeguarding self-audit page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/for-providers\/safeguarding\/safeguarding-training\/\">Safeguarding training<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The committee are responsible for ensuring that the setting has effective safeguarding policies and procedures in accordance with the requirements in: Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership (Devon SCP) South West Child protection Procedures (SWCPP) Neither the Committee or the individual governors should have a role in dealing with individual cases or <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 02:35:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"division","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14690,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434\/revisions\/14690"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}