Safeguarding Responsibilities
Cumbria Sport Partnership will:
- Promote a consistent approach to safeguarding across the sports sector in Cumbria for the benefit of sports organisations, staff / volunteers, parents / carers and children / young people
- Provide advice and guidance on safeguarding to partner organisations
- Act as an advocate for good safeguarding practice, and promote the adoption of the guidance within the Cumbria Sport Partnership Safeguarding Policy, across the wider Partnership
- Accept the moral and legal responsibility to implement procedures to provide a duty of care for young people, safeguard their wellbeing and protect them from abuse
- Respect and promote the rights, wishes and feelings of children and young people
- Recruit, train and supervise its employees and volunteers to adopt best practice to safeguard and protect young people from abuse and themselves against allegations
- Require employees / volunteers to adopt and abide by the Cumbria Sport Partnership Safeguarding Policy and Good Practice Guidelines (at induction)
- Respond to allegations appropriately and implement the appropriate disciplinary and appeals procedures
- Ensure that its partnership, funding or commissioning criteria reference the requirement to address safeguarding within the relevant organisation(s)
- Monitor and evaluate the policy every three years, in response to any changes in the role of the Partnership or in relevant legislation or following a significant incident.