Child Protection in Arts: Frequently Asked Questions: Answers
Recruiting Safely
22. “How can we deter abusers from getting involved in the organisation/project?”
The best way is to put effective hurdles in the path of abusers in your recruitment and selection procedures for staff and volunteers. Audit your organisation, identify the gaps and devise a strategy to address them, involving staff, volunteers, parents, young people and the wider community in the process. (See: NSPCC’s ‘firstcheck’ pack which contains a useful auditing tool – ‘Checkpoints’, Tel: 020 7825 2775 / email: infounit@nspcc.org.uk / www.nspcc.org.uk)
Answers compiled by Michelle Walmsley, Consultant Child Protection Trainer, Manchester. October 2003.
Sources include:
- ‘firstcheck’, NSPCC, email: infounit@nspcc.org.uk
- ‘Our Duty to Care’, Volunteer Development Agency, Tel: 028 9023 6100
- ‘Keeping Arts Safe; protection of children, young people and vulnerable
adults involved in arts activities’, Arts Council England/NSPCC, April
2003. See: www.tipp.org.uk
- ‘More Than a Policy: Towards Meaningful Child Protection in the Arts’
– TiPP/Arts Council England, April 2003. See: www.tipp.org.uk
- ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, Home Office, Department
for Education and Employment, Department of Health, 1999.
- ‘The Framework for the Assessment of Children and their Families’,
DoH, DfEE, H.O., 2000.
- ‘Every Child Matters’, Government Green Paper, 2003.