Agenda item

Report of the Safeguarding Lead, Guildhall School.

A report of the Safeguarding Lead updated the Board on the Safeguarding developments during the Academic Year 2013/14 particularly with regard to:-

·      Current Safeguarding Arrangements

·      Changes to the policy and procedures

·      Training undertaken by the Lead Safeguarding Contact, all staff and Governors

·      The number and type of incidents/cases reported

The Principal reported that safeguarding was the largest reputational and non-financial risk to the School. One of the Safeguarding Lead Members pointed out that to assist people wishing to raise issues that the telephone number for the Lead Officer for Safeguarding at School should be included at the front of the policy.

Governors discussed the changes being proposed to the policy and requested that if further changes were to be made in the future that a marked up version be submitted to the Board for ease of reference.

In relation to safeguarding training, Governors pointed out that the online training course was not straightforward to complete and that the Education Board may wish to look at taking a lead on this along with looking at a unified Safeguarding Policy across the three independent Schools and the Guildhall School.

RESOLVED – That the contents of the report be noted and that the revised Safeguarding Policy be approved.