Local Authority Safeguarding
Total Safeguarding
We believe that successfully achieving high standards of professional safeguarding practice is founded on eight core principles that come together to create Total Safeguarding:
- Strong governance, leadership and management
- A clear focus on harm prevention and reduction
- Efficient recording and case management of concerns
- Effective team working within and between individuals and organisations
- Managing and sharing information securely, lawfully, and pro-actively
- Securing professional and emotional support for your people, your teams and yourself
- Being able to see the rich picture – understanding your data and developing insight
- Learning lessons from your own professional practice and that of others.
The essential step to Total Safeguarding is to combine the practice of safeguarding with the very best technology - each is necessary, individually they are unlikely to meet the current safeguarding challenge. Together we can create everything you need for yours to be a world-class safeguarding organisation – one that protects children and adults and supports them to have the best outcomes in learning, in work and in life.
Safeguarding Services for Local Authorities
Secure, Effective and Efficient
Suitable for use in any local authority, MyConcern safeguarding software is a safe and effective way of recording, reporting and managing all safeguarding and wellbeing concerns about children, young people and adults at risk in your area.
The system has won awards thanks to how quickly it creates an appropriate team for each individual, facilitating the scope for early intervention and placing those at risk front and centre. MyConcern is not just a catch-all solution to safeguarding, but the platform’s design naturally changes your processes to reduce risk, ensure compliance, proactively save time through efficiencies and secure data sharing.
Who Benefits?
Individuals, Families and the Community
Communities and individuals benefit from a greater level of support and service as issues are highlighted and addressed sooner.
Local Authority Departments
Staff have peace of mind, effortlessly reporting and tracking the progress of their concerns. Easy access to safeguarding guidance makes safeguarding policies more robust.
Local Government
Access to powerful reports, providing aggregated data and high-level information on issues and trends that can assist with decision making, informing policies and budgets.
Your Safeguarding Teams
Safeguarding teams can see and review the full picture of those in care. By streamlining the process, safeguarding teams and individuals at risk can enjoy improved time efficiency.
Why Your Local Authority Needs Safeguarding Software
Safeguarding challenges are rapidly growing in importance for local authorities as legal duties and responsibilities increase. Local authorities now have to deal with a growing number of different issues such as child sexual exploitation, female genital mutilation, radicalisation, county lines and modern slavery.
Mental health is now an issue of community relevance, meaning local authorities have responsibility to manage and protect those who are unwell. As the responsibilities for local authorities mature, so must the processes and software behind them.
We Are Safeguardians
Let's Work Together
Seamlessly Designed for Safeguarding in Your Local Authority
MyConcern is a software that can be easily used by anyone as long as they have access to a web-enabled device. The software allows for savings on time across the breadth of local authority safeguarding processes, all while providing some much-coveted peace of mind for safeguarding officers.
The system is GDPR compliant and registered with the UK Information Commissioner. MyConcern is intuitive, easy to navigate and provides a platform to add and manage as many profiles as needed, it also offers a solution to effectively and securely transfer records to other trusted external parties (e.g. social care or police), even those who do not have MyConcern installed.
Solutions
As well as MyConcern safeguarding software, our suite of safeguarding solutions to support Local Authorities is ever-growing, so we can help with your safeguarding processes in a number of ways.
Explore our products below:
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 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 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 Training and Self-assessments
Our package of safeguarding training and self-assessments to help you build and maintain safeguarding expertise in your organisation
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Safeguarding challenges have never been more complex nor the legal duties of those working with young people more stringent. The number and range of safeguarding concerns now being handled in organisations have grown exponentially to include issues such as sexual harassment, substance misuse, mental health and radicalisation.
Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of learners, in both physical and mental health, during their enrolment at your college is crucial, not to mention the obligation upon the your staff and partners if a concern is raised.
