Safeguarding & Prevent
What is Safeguarding?
Safeguarding is aimed at protecting vulnerable children and adults from harm, Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults at risk and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice.
What is Prevent?
Part of NSCD’s Safeguarding duty also includes protecting vulnerable individuals from the risk of radicalisation and extremism. Prevent is one of four national strands within CONTEST, the UK’s long term Counter Terrorism Strategy. The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 requires NSCD to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.
What we do at NSCD
- Have clear policies & procedures in place relation to Safeguarding & Prevent
- Have a Designated Safeguarding & Prevent Lead supported by a team of Officers across all of NSCD’s provision, who report back to our Safeguarding Committee
- Support a culture of vigilance across NSCD so all staff, students & visitors feel supported in raising a concern
- Train all staff in Safeguarding & Prevent at a level appropriate to their role
- Include student inductions for Centre for Advanced Training, Access, Undergraduate & Post graduate levels
- Take all concerns seriously & act upon them in a timely & appropriate manner, whilst offering full support through NSCD & specialist services
- Have a thorough recruitment process, making sure staff are appropriate to work with our diverse student body
- Have a Prevent Risk Assessment Plan, which is currently set at a LOW Level
Reporting a concern
If you are worried about yourself or someone you know at NSCD please contact a member of staff who will refer this to a member of the Safeguarding team. Full list of our Safeguarding Team is below
Safeguarding & Remote Education
At NSCD we have adjusted to working remotely with our students, our Safeguarding procedures remain an the centre of our work and have / will be adjusted to take into consideration the changing landscape of provision during Covid 19. For further information on keeping safe online for parents and children that may access our work please see the links at the bottom of the page.
Download our Prevent Statement & Policy and / or Child Protection and Adult at Risk Policy Statement
NSCD are dedicated to Safeguarding all our students and staff, if you have a Safeguarding concern or query please contact our Safeguarding Team, by phone on 0113 2193006 or email safeguarding@nscd.ac.uk.
Safeguarding Lead – Tracy Witney
Safeguarding Officers – Francesca McCarthy, Rose Chadwick, Matthew Slater, Phil Sanger, Eric Assandri & Hannah Perry.
Helpful Links
Leeds City Council One Minute Guides –
Radicalisation and preventing extremism
Leeds Safeguarding Children’s Board
Child Sexual Exploitation
Domestic Violence & Children’s Service
Female Genital Mutilation
Mindmate
Other links
Leeds Domestic Violence Service
Leeds Safeguarding Adults – Easy Read Guide
Use these resources to support parents and carers to keep their children safe online:
- Thinkuknow provides advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on staying safe online
- Parent info is a collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
- Childnet offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
- Internet matters provides age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, and a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world
- London Grid for Learning has support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
- Net-aware has support for parents and carers from the NSPCC, including a guide to social networks, apps and games
- Let’s Talk About It has advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
- UK Safer Internet Centre has tips, advice, guides and other resources to help keep children safe online, including parental controls offered by home internet providers and safety tools on social networks and other online services
