Are you safeguarding your students?
As we proactively manage a student's non-academic needs, we 'safeguard' their learning - we keep them on the path to success!
Let's Talk SafeguardingWhat is Safeguarding?
When we 'safeguard' students, we take care of them, protect them from harm, address their vulnerabilities and proactively manage their non-academic needs.
We deliberately support student engagement by mitigating those factors that keep children distracted from their learning, like bullying. As a safeguarding company, we provide the training and software tools needed to do this for each and every student.
Begin with the end in mind
Read our Safeguarding E-Book that provides an in-depth look at Contextual Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment, and managing concerns about colleagues.
Safeguarding E-Book31%
Of Primary Students have been bullied at some time
11%
Rise in Reports of Child Abuse in the year to March 2021 compared with the year previous. (Central Statistics Office)
16%
Of Secondary students have been bullied at some time
In our experience, effective Safeguarding practice starts with the Essentials
The Essentials
Recording and Case Management
Good record keeping is the cornerstone of effective safeguarding practice.
A vitally important practical step in safeguarding is to record concerns as they arise. MyConcern® is our Award-winning secure digital platform that enables staff or other members of your organisation (such as volunteers) to record their safeguarding concerns quickly and easily.
Recording safeguarding concerns in a carefully structured and consistent way supports highly effective case management and data analysis. Our mobile companion app enables the secure recording and case management of concerns on-the-go and seamlessly links with your user account in MyConcern.
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Informed Decision Making
Understanding your safeguarding data is critical if you want to prevent serious harm.
By recording incidents and concerns diligently and consistently a picture will quickly emerge of risks, issues and trends. By monitoring and managing your data in MyConcern you will be in the best possible position to provide early help and to demonstrate the impact of your initiatives and interventions.
Generating Insight
Build a Rich Picture
Gaining a multi-establishment perspective provides much greater insight to improve safeguarding practice.
Safeguarding concerns are rarely limited to a single place or issue - they often occur in multiple locations and involve several people and issues. Building a rich picture using a wide base of data and from a multi-establishment perspective can provide much greater insight. Organisation-wide and even community-based action now becomes possible.
Data from multiple instances of MyConcern can be analysed using the advanced capabilities of Clarity® to track trends, identify actionable opportunities for intervention, save time and money, and improve safeguarding practice.
Combine the best practice of Safeguarding, with the very best technology.
Collective Responsibility
Working with Others
Managing and sharing information securely, lawfully, and pro-actively.
When safeguarding intervention is needed, effective communication within and between individuals and organisations is vital. Our whole suite of products brings everything that you need to work with others, not least at times of crisis.
You can share safeguarding information securely, confidentially and easily using capabilities such as automated chronologies, anonymising tools, referral tracking and secure data transfer between agencies.
Continuous Personal Development
People and Teams
Effective safeguarding relies on people working well together, sharing information and supporting each other.
Any organisation committed to effective safeguarding needs to ensure their staff, volunteers and other relevant people receive regular high-quality safeguarding training and development.
Mentor™ is our package of safeguarding services that includes tutor-led and learner-led CPD accredited training, safeguarding masterclasses and downloadable templates and tools to help you build and maintain safeguarding expertise in your organisation.
How can you use technology to support student wellbeing?
Safeguarding with MyConcern can be a simple but powerful process that supports students within their needs. By strategically implementing safeguarding with experience-based training, assigning safeguarding leads at the school and district, embedding proactive measures in the classroom, and using the proven MyConcern software, educators can effectively manage the wellbeing concerns students present.
With the easy-to-use MyConcern app, teachers, administrators, counselors, lunch workers, bus drivers, and all other staff members can report and document observed student concerns. This concern flows up to the school’s assigned safeguarding lead who uses MyConcern to track, analyze, assign follow-up and manage these student concerns. These efforts can be reported, audited, redacted, disaggregated and analyzed for lessons learned going forward.
Our Safeguarding Solutions
Our Total Safeguarding approach combines the very best safeguarding technology and practice. It's all backed by world class customer service.
For Concerns about Children and Young Adults
Easy-to-use, centralised, secure record-keeping and case management for all types of safeguarding concerns
Find out moreFor Allegations Against Staff
One of the most sensitive issues facing any leader is how to handle serious allegations about their staff. Confide is the answer
Find out moreFor Multi-establishment Reporting
A powerful reporting tool designed exclusively for multi-establishment safeguarding. Paired with MyConcern and Confide to provide high-level, anonymised reporting across groups of establishments
Find out moreFor Safer Recruitment
A safer recruitment and personnel vetting tool that acts as your Single Central Record. Designed to guide you through the recruitment process and to ensure that no check is missed
Find out moreFor Training and Audits
Our package of safeguarding training and audit services to help you build and maintain safeguarding expertise in your organisation
Find out moreWe Are Safeguardians
Lets Work Together
Resources
Latest Posts
What is Safeguarding?
In this blog, we are going right back to ground level, what is safeguarding? What is the purpose of it? And, why is it so important that safeguarding practices are robust, thorough and embodied by all stakeholders?
E-Book: Introduction to Safeguarding
Our Introduction to Safeguarding E-Book is jam-packed with resources and information - everything you need to know to get started in Safeguarding. Download this free resource now!
Mental Health and Well-being: Depression, Anxiety, and Self-harm
The Covid-19 Pandemic has negatively affected the mental health and wellbeing of students and staff alike, issues which are likely to surface for many years to come. Read our introduction on how to spot the signs that someone you know is struggling.
