The Purpose Of This Policy Statement Is: - To protect children and young people who receive One2One’s services from harm. This includes the children of adults who use our services. - To provide staff as well as children and young people and their families, with the overarching principles that guide our approach to child protection. This policy applies to anyone working on behalf of One2One, including paid staff, volunteers, sessional workers, and students. We Recognise That: - The welfare of children is paramount in all the work we do and in all the decisions we take. - Working in partnership with children, young people, their parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting young people’s welfare. - All children, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation have an equal right to protection from all types of harm or abuse. - Some children are additionally vulnerable because of the impact of previous experiences, their level of dependency, communication needs or other issues. - Extra safeguards may be needed to keep children who are additionally vulnerable safe from abuse. We Will Seek To Keep Children And Young People Safe By: - Valuing, listening to and respecting them. - Appointing a nominated child protection lead for children and young people. - Adopting child protection and safeguarding best practice through our policies, procedures and code of conduct for staff and volunteers. At least 2 adults or young people aged over 17 will be present when working with the public at the studio. - Developing and implementing an effective online safety policy and related procedures. - We ensure, while posting content with minors, we secure consent from the minor’s parent or legal guardian before offering to feature them in a YouTube video – the content can either be audio or audio-visual and can be via a private link or publicly on our website for 2 months after filming. - We use online tools to filter and review comments, and you can always flag comments to us for spam or abuse. - Providing effective management for staff and volunteers through supervision, support, training and quality assurance measures so that all staff and volunteers know about and follow our policies, procedures and behaviour codes confidently and competently. - Recruiting and selecting staff and volunteers safely, ensuring all necessary checks are made (DBS). - Recording and storing and using information professionally and securely, in line with data protection legislation and guidance and keeping the information, with audio and visual recordings for 1 year after recording only. - Making sure that children, young people and their families know where to go for help if they have a concern• using our safeguarding and child protection procedures to share concerns and relevant information with agencies who need to know, and involving children, young people, parents, families and carers appropriately. - Using our procedures to manage any allegations against staff and volunteers appropriately. - Creating and maintaining an anti-bullying environment and ensuring that we have a policy and procedure to help us deal effectively with any bullying that does arise. - Ensuring that we have effective complaints and whistleblowing measures in place. - Ensuring that we provide a safe physical environment for our children, young people, staff and volunteers, by applying health and safety measures in accordance with the law and regulatory guidance. - Building a safeguarding culture where staff and volunteers, children, young people and their families, treat each other with respect and are comfortable about sharing concerns. Contact Details: Nominated child protection lead: Dr Shubha Setty, via email at info@one2onerecording.com. We are committed to reviewing our policy and good practice annually. This policy was last reviewed on: 04/07/2025
