SAFEGUARDING & PREVENT STATEMENT

Smart Training and Recruitment’s Safeguarding Practices are guided by the following seven key principles:

1. Empowerment of people are supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and give informed consent.
2. Prevention is better to take action before harm occurs. Specifically safe physical and on-line environments will be provided along with careful and vigilant teaching, accessible pastoral care and support
3. Proportionality and the least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
4. Protection by providing training, support, and clear procedures to enable all team members to respond appropriately and sensitively to safeguarding, child protection concerns and ensuring that our company’s IT infrastructure and network are safe and secure.
5. Support by providing help and support to young people and adults at risk who do not feel safe or may have been abused.
6. Partnership with local services working with their communities – communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and  reporting neglect and abuse.
7. Accountability and transparency in safeguarding

Smart Training and Recruitment is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all our learners, and we expect every member of our team, our learners and our employer partners to share that commitment. Safeguarding applies to everyone — children, young people and adults at risk — and covers physical safety, emotional wellbeing, and protection from harm, abuse, neglect, exploitation and radicalisation.

Everyone has a responsibility to act, without delay, if something doesn’t feel right. That means reporting any concern that a learner may be at risk, and being willing to challenge behaviour that falls short of the standards we expect. It is this willingness to speak up that underpins our approach. We work in partnership with learners, families, employers and external agencies to improve outcomes for anyone who is vulnerable or in need of support.

In the current climate, personal safety also means knowing what to do in the unlikely event of a serious incident in a public place. The national guidance is simple, memorable, and could make all the difference: Run, Hide, Tell. Run to a place of safety if you can. If you can’t run, hide and stay quiet. Once you’re safe, tell the police by calling 999.

If you have a safeguarding concern, however small, please raise it straight away with your tutor, or our Designated Safeguarding Team safeguarding@smarttar.co.uk.