If you have any Safeguarding Concerns please contact the Designated Safety Officer – Dr Peter King at the email below:
connect@earthscienceoutreach.org.uk
All our key team members have had DBS checks. They are aware of our reporting and recording procedure and know who their Designated Safety Officer (DSO) is and how to contact them in an emergency.
When we work with partner organisations our usual procedure is to take their lead in any recorded incidents. We do also have our own procedures and we constantly monitor and evaluate our procedures to make sure they are effective and up to date.
ESO-UK have adopted the NSPCC 4Rs guidelines to Safeguarding:
Recognise – our core team are aware they need to recognise signs of abuse and how to spot behaviour that may indicate abuse.
Respond – all our personnel know how to respond if a child chooses to disclose an incident of abuse to us, or what to do if we recognise potential signs of abuse. Most importantly they will take any disclosure of abuse seriously and take personal responsibility to make the child is out of immediate danger and to make sure it gets reported.
Report – all our personnel are aware that they should not try and diagnose abuse or try to deal with abusive situation themselves, but instead they should try and report it to the appropriate person. In most cases this will be the lead member of the partner organisation we are working with, but if this is not appropriate (perhaps because they are the ones suspected of being the abuser) or this is not an option, it could be social services or the police. If unsure what to do we will ask the NSPCC for further advice. In all cases the incident and what happened afterwards will be reported to the ESO-UK DSO.
Record – in all cases of reporting suspected abuse ESO-UK will keep a record by filling in a Report generated in conjunction the DSO. We will keep our reports so that they are available should they be needed as evidence in further proceedings.
If you have any further queries, questions or feedback please contact the DSO: Dr Peter King:
