I (Lesley Wardrop) believes that it is always unacceptable for a child or young person to experience abuse of any kind and I recognise my responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and young people, by a commitment to a practice which protects them.
I recognise that:
- the welfare of the child/young person is paramount
- all children, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, sexual orientation or identity have the right to equal protection from all types of harm or abuse
- working in partnership with children, young people, their parents, carers and their agencies are essential in promoting young people’s welfare.
The purpose of the policy:
- To provide protection for the children and young people who receive therapeutic services including supervision from Lesley Wardrop.
- To provide colleagues and volunteers with guidance on procedures they should adopt in the event that they suspect a child or young person may be experiencing or be at risk of harm.
This policy applies to the therapeutic and supervision services provided by Lesley Wardrop .
I will seek to safeguard children and young people by:
- Valuing them, listening to and respecting them.
- Adopting child protection guidelines provided by individual schools and/or the local county council through procedures and a code of conduct.
- Sharing information about child protection and good practice with children, parents, colleagues.
- Sharing information about concerns with agencies that need to know and involving parents and children appropriately.
- Providing effective management for colleagues through supervision, support and training.
- A current Enhanced DBS certificate is registered with www.gov.uk/dbs
- Current Professional Civil Liability Insurance – certificate available upon request
Lesley Wardrop is committed to reviewing my policy and good practice annually.
Lesley Wardrop will access regular safe guarding training:
- Advanced Safeguarding Children (level 2) (High Speed raining) August 2022
- Prevent Awareness course – December 2022
I will always work with schools to follow Safeguarding policy and procedures as guided by the statutory guidance September 2021 – Keeping Children Safe in Education’
Data Protection Policy (DPP) including record keeping 2023
It is my intention to follow the seven key principles as set out by the UK GDPR:
- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data minimisation
- Accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Integrity and confidentiality (security)
- Accountability
PTUK have created a model Data Protection Policy which I have adopted. It is extensive and very thorough. A full digital copy is available upon request. I am now using Fortuna a secure record keeping system provided by PTUK.
It is my intention to work with schools to ensure that my DPP reflects and supports DPP requirements within individual schools and make all users of my Play Therapy services aware of the importance of protecting individual persons data.
Any paper records – current consent forms are kept securely at my office and destroyed when the intervention is complete unless required to be stored for the regulated amount of time (7years) or longer if requested.
Lesley Wardrop – Data Protection Register number: ZA306751
Play Therapy UK – Data Protection Register number: ZA107748
Complaints Procedure 2023
If you have a concern or a complaint against Lesley Wardrop and feel you are unable to speak directly to Lesley, the school or her clinical supervisor. PTUK have a complaints procedure and information can be accessed via the PTUK website:
http://www.playtherapy.org.uk/Standards/EthicalFramework/EthicsProfessionalConductProc1.htm
School Setting
Lesley will work closely with the SENCo/Inclusion Manager or identified responsible person for Safeguarding to be aware and follow the Child Safeguarding Policy, Data protection policy and Health and Safety requirements.