Safe Systems - safeguarding accreditation scheme
In September 2009, NCVYS launched Safe Systems - a new safeguarding accreditation scheme. The scheme will help small to medium voluntary and community organisations achieve good safeguarding practice and provides an introductory level of achievement towards the established NCVYS Sound Systems accreditation scheme.Voluntary and community organisations are frequently asked to provide evidence to show that they have satisfactory safeguarding policies and are compliant with Section 11 Children’s Act 2004. Safe Systems helps organisations evidence the fact that they have good basic safeguarding policies and procedures in place by providing NCVYS with evidence of these policies and procedures.
For a small fee organisations will receive a Safe Systems workbook packed with information and advice. The workbook also contains lots of useful links to signpost organisations to where they can find help to develop their policies and practice. Organisations gather together their evidence and policy documents and send them to NCVYS. Experienced NCVYS staff will check the policies and the evidence against the standards and if found satisfactory award the Safe Systems certificate. For those organisations whose policy documents do not reach the required standard NCVYS will advise them of the shortfalls and invite them to amend and re-submit their evidence (at no extra cost). For further information about the scheme contact rhiannon@ncvys.org.uk or telephone 020 7278 1041. For more information on safeguarding and child protection, including NCVYS's existing accrediation scheme, see the Sound Systems web page and the Keeping It Safe resource. |