Sheila Price Dance
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy
This policy applies to all staff, including senior managers, paid staff, volunteers, freelance teachers, students or anyone working on behalf of Sheila Price Dance.
The purpose of this policy:
- to protect children and young people who receive Sheila Price Dance’s services. This includes the children of adults who use our services.
- to provide staff and volunteers with the overarching principles that guide our approach to child protection.
Sheila Price Dance believes that a child or young person should never experience abuse of any kind. We acknowledge the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and are committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice and regulatory requirements. We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people and to keep them safe. We are committed to practice in a way that protects them.
We 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 other agencies is essential in promoting young people’s welfare.
- all children have a positive and enjoyable experience of dance and the associated arts with Sheila Price Dance in a safe and child centred environment and are protected from abuse whilst participating in activities provided by Sheila Price Dance.
We will seek to keep children and young people safe by:
- valuing them, listening to and respecting them.
- adopting child protection practices through procedures and a code of conduct for staff and volunteers.
- developing and implementing an effective e-safety policy and related procedures;
- providing effective management for staff and volunteers through supervision, support and training.
- recruiting staff and volunteers safely, ensuring all necessary checks are made;
- sharing information about child protection and good practice with children, parents, staff and volunteers.
- sharing concerns with agencies who need to know, and involving parents and children appropriately.
- where we do have safeguarding concerns we will contact the parents first, except where there is a child protection or medical emergency.
- ensure that confidential, detailed and accurate records of all safeguarding concerns are maintained and securely stored.
- we will carry out safe recruitment including DBS checks on every staff member we employ.
- any allegation made against any members of our staff will be passed on to our local authority.
We are committed to equality, therefore:
- We do our best to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with respect.
- We make our classes and courses a safe, secure and stimulating place for everyone.
- We recognise that people have different needs, and we understand that treating people equally does not always involve treating them all exactly the same.
- We recognise that for some pupils extra support is needed to help them to achieve and be successful.
- We welcome our general duty to eliminate discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to foster good relations; we ensure that no-one experiences less favourable treatment or discrimination because of their age; any disability they may have; their ethnicity, colour or national origin; their gender; their gender identity or reassignment; their marital or civil partnership status; their religion or beliefs; their sexual identity and orientation.
Contact details
Senior lead for safeguarding and child protection
Name: Beccy Clark
Phone: 07881524028
Email: sheilapricedance@yahoo.
We are committed to reviewing our policy and good practice annually. This policy was reviewed on 06.02.2025