Child Protection Policy

The Bucks & Milton Keynes Sports Partnership will:

• Develop, implement and review clear mechanisms for reporting child protection concerns and issues
• Establish clear lines of communication for any child protection issue
• Adhere to locally and Nationally agreed policies and procedures for responding to child protection issues
• Recruit, train and supervise its employees and volunteers to adopt best practice to safeguard and protect young people from abuse, and themselves against false allegations
• Require all staff within the Partnership to adopt and abide by the organisation’s Code of Ethics and Conduct and the Child Protection Policy and Procedures
• Respond to any allegations appropriately  and in accordance with the Partnership procedures
• Actively promote safeguarding within all Partnership work and establish minimum safeguarding standards
• Provide, or signpost , safeguarding support and resources to partner organisations
• Prevent organisations duplicating work on child protection issues

The policy was originally developed in December 2002 and formally adopted by each of the local authority partners. The policy will be reviewed by the partnership child protection group every three years or in light of changes in legislation and/or occurring incidents. The current version was formally adopted by the Partnership Executive Board on behalf of the partnership in 2006

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