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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LSCB Safeguarding Policy (Generic) [108kb]

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VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR (VCS)

Safeguarding Children and Young People is taken seriously in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). Volunteers who work with children, young people and vulnerable adults need to be aware of many different safeguarding issues. These include the arrangements made to protect vulnerable people in Cornwall and how volunteers should go about their work whilst keeping children safe.

Often the trusted relationships built with a local youth club leader or volunteer can create a safe space for disclosures from children and young people and everyone needs to know what they should then do.

We also need to bear in mind that this level of trust needs to be carefully supported to ensure everyone in the relationship is safe. 

The NSPCC's Safe Network www.safenetwork.org.uk was set up to support the voluntary and community sector to help them with useful resources and advice.

To facilitate the work of the VCS, with the LSCB, there are VCS Representatives on the Board and Sub groups.  Steve Clarke is the VCS Representative on the LSCB Board: steve@cn4c.org.uk

Steve Clarke can be contacted if you wish to share safeguarding issues with the LSCB. If you would like to see the reports from the meetings Steve and the other Representatives attend on the VCS's behalf, please visit Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum's website or click here: http://cornwallvsf.org/representation/

In addition there is a children's workforce development network in Cornwall known as 'IVO' (Independent Voluntary Organisations) and it works with the LSCB to support more volunteers and staff in the VCS to understand child protection, the wider safeguarding children agenda and how everyone can do their bit.  IVO commissions training throughout the year in Child Protection and other issues facing the Children's Workforce.  For more details, please contact the Chair: Tom Jane tom@ilcm.org.uk

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