Sacpa webinar – Safeguarding considerations when commissioning contractors and letting premises

• Date: February 15, 2023
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00
• Cost: Sacpa Member – £60, Additional Sacpa Member – £20, Non-member – £120
• Audience: This webinar is for all staff involved in managing and monitoring commissioning arrangement for contractors carrying out maintenance, counselling services and welfare interventions and the letting of premises to third party organisations providing services for children and adults including clubs, community groups, activities, and classes.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Could you demonstrate how you ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place to keep children safe when hiring or renting out school or college facilities/premises?

In what ways could you demonstrate that safeguarding forms a proportionate part of any commissioning on contracting arrangements ?

This webinar will draw on the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 and best practice which demonstrate leadership in safeguarding to support colleagues in the development of this area of safeguarding work.

Delegates will have an opportunity to review examples of best practice and consider how these may be applicable to their organisational needs and context.

Training topics will include:

• The role of safeguarding leadership within the wider community: why is it important?
• Integrating statutory safeguarding requirements into current procurement, commissioning, and lettings process
• When is safer recruitment, the single central record and the staff behaviour policy relevant to contractual and commissioning arrangements
• Encouraging the development of robust safeguarding practice with third party users running clubs and activities
• Additional best practice tips for keeping everyone safe.

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates have an opportunity to consider what their role is in safeguarding within the wider community
• Delegates will explore how statutory safeguarding requirements can be further integrated into procurement, commissioning and lettings procedures
• Delegates will be able to make proportionate decisions about additional safety planning measures and safeguarding briefings, such as the staff behaviour policy are appropriate for some contractual situations
• Delegates will explore how they can encourage robust safeguarding practice in contractors providing services and those letting premises where their practice is still developing
• Delegates will consider other best practice examples that are uncomplicated to implement, yet keep everyone additionally safe.

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