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Accommodating children in premises that are safe
Do you have a health & safety policy, which includes what to do if someone is injured or sick, and what to do in case of a fire or other emergency?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, put a copy of this document in your Staff and Volunteer Handbook and also in your Mangagement Committee Guide.
Health and safety law requires the employer to assess the risks to the health and safety of staff and others affected by their activities. The terms risk assessment and risk management are used to describe the process of thinking about the risks of any activity and the steps taken to counter them. Sensible management of risk does not mean that a separate written risk assessment is required for every activity. You should, however, do a risk assessment each time you plan an activity you haven't done before.

School employers should always take a common sense and proportionate approach, remembering that in schools risk assessment and risk management are tools to enable children to undertake activities safely, and not prevent activities from taking place.

For information on health and safety including employers liabilities, visit the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) website

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Do you undertake regular risk assessments?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, you should do a new risk assessment at the start of each year or more frequently if you change premises. Classroom risk assessment templates are available on the Health & Safety Executive website
Go to the Health & Safety Executive HSE website for further information about how to assess risk in the workplace.

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Do you have procedures for taking children off-site?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, put a copy of this document in your Staff and Volunteer Handbook.
You must provide clear guidelines on how to ensure children are safe. Offsite procedures will enable you to take advantage of the many educational opportunities - most of them free - that are offered by arts & heritage agencies across England.

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Appointing suitable staff and supervising teaching
Do you have a staffing and volunteer policy? Does it include recruitment and induction procedures.
- Yes
- No
Excellent, put a copy of this document should be included in your Staff and Volunteer Handbook. You are also required by law to provide all staff with copies of your grievance and disciplinary procedures.

Employees are protected by law if they make a disclosure about their employer in the public interest. You should include a Whistleblowing Procedure in your Staff and Volunteer Handbook with details of who to report malpractice to.
We advise trustees to ensure they are aware of the changes and updates in the area of staff recruitment and safeguarding through the DBS website. The legislation is complex and trustees should consider taking professional advice where necessary. It is also important to remember that disclosure and barring services are all part of a safer recruitment regime and do not remove the need for charities to develop and apply robust recruitment procedures, including checking identity, qualifications and references and enquiring into career history. https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/overview

You are required by law to provide all employees with copies of your grievance and disciplinary procedures. Employees are protected by law if they make a disclosure about their employer in the public interest. You should include a Whistleblowing Procedure in your staff and volunteer handbook with details of who to report malpractice to.

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Do you have a list of staff and volunteers showing roles within your school, management structures, hours and pay where relevant, training attended, and DBS check details where appropriate?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, put a copy of this document in your Management Committee Guide.
You should have information about each person in your school on file. It is good practice to collect this together in one secure, confidential place. A simple chart can provide all the above details for 1 to 6 staff on one page.
Your management committee need to be able to review staff and pupil numbers easily in order to ensure that your setting maintains an appropriate ratio of adults to children and that your provision is being delivered safely and effectively.
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Do you have job descriptions for each staff member and role descriptions for volunteers?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, you should put copies of these in your Staff and Volunteer Handbook.
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Do you have a commitment to promoting equality and diversity and a written Statement that declares this?
- Yes
- No
Excellent, put a copy of this document in your Management Committee Guide.
Supplementary schools have long played an important role in easing the integration of communities, particularly those newly arrived in the UK.  Community Cohesion policies, as defined by the government's Neighbourhood Renewal Unit in 2005, and reaffirmed in the DCLG's 2012 paper, ‘Creating the conditions for integration’, aim to build communities in which all people from different backgrounds and circumstances: have a common vision and a sense of belonging, value diversity, are offered similar life opportunities, experience strong and positive relationships - in workplaces, at schools  and within neighbourhoods.

The DCLG presented this as :
- • a clear sense of shared aspirations and values and a strong sense of our mutual commitments and obligations;
- • people able to realise their potential to get on in life;
- • people of all backgrounds having opportunities to take part, be heard and take decisions in local and national life; and
- • a robust response to threats, whether discrimination, extremism or disorder, that deepen division and increase tensions.
We at NRCSE believe that, the work of supplementary schools presents a further opportunity to create links between communities and facilitate cross-community events and projects.
 
The Quality Framework for Supplementary Education requires supplementary schools to not just have an Equality and Diversity Policy, but to implement and review it regularly.

NRCSE runs training and provides advice and guidance such as: How to ensure you are promoting equality and respect for others and the law in your supplementary school: some DOs and DON’Ts

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Looks like you meet all 17 requirements to keep children safe and promote their welfare!

You can let your local authority know that your school meets the requirements of the Code of Practice for Supplementary Schools.

If you would like your achievement quality assured and to develop your school further then you should sign up to the Foundation Quality Mark where you can upload your policies & procedures, witness statement and request a school visit.

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Looks like you meet all 17 requirements to keep children safe and promote their welfare!

You can let your local authority know that your school meets the requirements of the Code of Practice for Supplementary Schools.

If you would like your achievement quality assured and to develop your school further then you should sign up to the Foundation Quality Mark where you can upload your policies & procedures, witness statement and request a school visit.

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