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Keeping Children Safe Guidance Last October, after a lengthy period of consultation, the government published its guidance on safeguarding in Out-of-School Settings (OOSS). Here Bill Stone, Safeguarding Advisor at Thirtyone:eight, discusses the document and its uses.
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his document, to give it its full title, is called “Keeping Children Safe during Community Activities, After School Clubs and Tuition” and the title is further elaborated as ‘Non statutory guidance for providers running out-of-school settings.’ The guidance is accompanied by a parallel document with the subtitle: ‘Questions to help parents and carers choose out-of-school settings’. Both documents are carefully designed to be easy to read with line drawings and user-friendly formats. Child safeguarding policies and processes are now relatively established in formal school settings and statutory guidance from the government’s Department for Education‘Working Together’ (2018) and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (Updated September 2020)has become familiar to those working with children in the statutory sector.
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