Creating Adoption Networks Community Interest Company
Creating Adoption Networks Community Interest Company
Key policies
Health and Safety policy
This is the health and safety policy statement of:
Creating Adoption Networks Community Interest Company
Our health and safety policy is to:
Prevent accidents and ill health
Manage health and safety risks whilst at events
Ensure all volunteers and directors are aware of the Health and Safety policy
Maintain safe equipment
Abide by CoSHH
Abide by health and safety law
Review policy yearly
Part 2: Responsibilities for health and safety
Overall and final responsibility for health and safety:
Clare Tyler and Lydia Price
Day-to-day responsibility for ensuring this policy is put into practice:
Clare Tyler and Lydia Price
To ensure health and safety standards are maintained/improved, the following people have responsibility in the following areas:
Clare Tyler and Lydia Price – events and meet ups.
All volunteers and directors should:
- co-operate with health and safety matters.
- take reasonable care of their own health and safety; and
- report all health and safety concerns to an appropriate person (as detailed above).
Part 3: Arrangements for health and safety
Risk assessment
All relevant risk assessments with be completed when needed and reviewed annually.
Clare Tyler and Lydia Price 14th January 2024
Reviewed 14th January 2025
Review date 14th January 2026
Safeguarding policy
The primary aim of Creating Adoption Networks is to bring together adoptive families.
The purpose of this policy statement is:
To protect children and young people who take part in Creative Adoption Networks events from harm. This includes the children and adults who attend events.
To provide staff and volunteers, 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 Creating Adoption Networks
including the directors and volunteers.
This policy should be read alongside the following policies –
Photograph and video policy
Health and Safety policy
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 directors and volunteers.
Ensure all directors and volunteers know about and follow our policies and procedures.
Recording and storing and using information professionally and securely, in line
with data protection legislation and guidance [more information about this is
available from the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/for-organisations
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 directors and volunteers
appropriately.
Ensuring that we provide a safe physical environment for our children, young
people, directors and volunteers, by applying health and safety measures in
accordance with the law and regulatory guidance.
Contact details
Nominated child protection lead
Name: Clare Tyler and Lydia Price
Phone/email:creatingadoptionnetworks@outlook.com
We are committed to reviewing our policy and good practice annually.
Signed: Clare Tyler and Lydia Price
8th January 2024
Reviewed 14th January 2025
Photo policy
Creating Adoption Networks has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people.
To ensure the safety of everyone at the our events and activities, we ask that any photos that are taken are only of your child/ren. Please be aware of any children that maybe visible in the background.
Creating Adoption Networks volunteers may take photos during the activity but will only take photos that do not have the faces of any of the children. The photos may be uploaded on to social media but no names will be used. Where there are photos of children's faces on our social media/website, permission has been given by the child and parent.
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