Acre Safeguarding Solutions Limited CONSULTANCY PACKAGES

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‘Safeguarding’ is the golden thread that should run through all elements of service delivery for organisations that engage with Children or Vulnerable Adults. The strapline ‘safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility’ is often used by organisations to remind their staff teams of their duties to the organisations service users, patients, clients or customers. 

Over the past 10 years there have been significant changes in the law relating to safeguarding vulnerable groups along with a related increase in expectations of organisations that provide services for or engage with Children or Vulnerable Adults.

Organisations are under greater scrutiny now than ever before in relation to services they deliver and what the law and society expects of them. This scrutiny starts at Board / Senior Management who set the expectations within an organisation and lead their staff teams.

At Acre Safeguarding Solutions Limited we offer clients an Organisational Safeguarding Healthcheck to support them in strategic and operational safeguarding decision making. The Healthcheck examines areas such as:

• Strategic / Corporate Oversight of Safeguarding
• Policies and Procedures
• Legal, Statutory and Mandatory Obligations
• Safeguarding Case Management
• Partnership Working
• Recruitment and Training of Staff

The Organisational Safeguarding Healthcheck Report will be a critical evaluation of your organisations current processes, and will identify both strengths and areas of good practice, but also areas of improvement, risk to service delivery or reputation.

  At Acre Safeguarding Solutions Limited we provide a Safeguarding Consultancy Service that will be bespoke and tailor made for you and your organisation. We draw from the experience and skillset of subject matter experts to assist, advise and support you with all organisational safeguarding related concerns. Framed as a more in-depth examination of your processes, our Safeguarding Consultancy can apply a more targeted lens to one or more areas of safeguarding service delivery, offer recommendations and solutions and if required work with you to implement and required changes or improvements. Acre Safeguarding Solutions Limited provide an unbiased professional assessment of current practice and act in an advisory capacity to support you and your organisation to manage incidents and events.

Our Consultancy Packages include, but not limited to:

• Individual Case Review
• Safeguarding Incident Management
• Staff Actions
• Risk to Safeguarding Service Delivery
• Reputational Risk to the Organisation
• Safeguarding Risk Minimisation / Mitigation

  At Acre Safeguarding Solutions Limited we also provide Annual / Biennial Safeguarding Audits for organisations when a formal targeted examination is required. 

Similar in ideology to the basic Organisational Safeguarding Healthcheck, a Safeguarding Audit is more in-depth, and will examine:

• Business Organisation Structure
• Governance and Accountability
• Senior Management Safeguarding Experience
• Safeguarding Training Package Review
• Information Management and GDPR
• Safeguarding Case Management and Review
• Staff Support and Supervision
• Safeguarding Resource Allocation
• Policies, Protocols, Procedures and SoP’s
• Risk to Safeguarding Service Delivery
• Reputational Risk to the Organisation
• Safeguarding Risk Minimisation / Mitigation

Our Audit will critically and analytically examine the way in which the social construct of safeguarding is imbedded into the culture of an organisation, and will include face to face interviews with Staff and Senior Management, focus groups and individual case reviews. The audit looks at ‘safeguarding’ from a Legal, Organisational and Individual perspective, and can be used as an internal toolkit for Management when structural change is planned to better inform management and staff, and to give a strategic assurance to customers of the importance an organisation regards the safeguarding and wellbeing of those it contracts or engages with.