4.13 Summary of Session 4

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The main learning and messages from this session are:

Four principles of a good reporting process are: awareness across your organisation; reporting concerns is a requirement for everyone; individuals don’t need to be certain about abuse before reporting it; ensuring it is victim and child-friendly. Putting a reporting process in place and promoting it so that everyone knows about it is likely to lead to an increase in reporting – that is its purpose. Staff involved in ethics, integrity, discipline, or recruitment need support to help them recognise information that may have wider safeguarding implications; a good working relationship with these departments is essential. Confidentiality, data sharing and protection, and secure recording of case information must be managed appropriately.

When you are ready, move on to Session 5 Case management: managing concerns [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , where you discover more about some of the main principles you can follow in responding to concerns.