Health Service Operation

All Organisations
In order to meet their responsibilities to promote and safeguard the welfare of children, each organisation must have:

• Clear priorities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children explicitly stated in their strategic policy
• The clear commitment of senior management to the importance of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• A clear line of accountability within the organisation for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• Recruitment and human resource management procedures that take account of  the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and which require appropriate checks on new staff and volunteers.
• Procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against members of staff and volunteers
• Arrangements to ensure staff undertake appropriate training and refresher training
• Policies for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children including a child protection policy
• Arrangements to work effectively with other organisations and to share information with them in order to promote safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• A culture of listening to and engaging with children, seeking their views and taking account of those views when making decisions about individual cases or the development of services
• Appropriate whistle-blowing policies and that enables issues about safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children to be addressed

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