Safeguarding Lawyers
A strong safeguarding culture is essential for creating a safe and supportive environment for everyone who interacts with your organisation.
Our safeguarding solicitors provide expert guidance to help you meet your legal responsibilities with confidence and compliance, whether you have statutory safeguarding duties or otherwise.
Safeguarding is no longer solely about protecting children and adults at risk, although there are specific statutory requirements for the protection of these groups. It is about people and organisations working together to minimise the risk of abuse occurring, and to reduce the impact when it does.
Effective safeguarding arrangements involve the identification and management of risks, clear policies and procedures to address them which are understood by your community, the conduct of appropriate recruitment checks, training and supervision, facilitating a culture where people speak up about matters of concern and when such issues are raised, ensuring that they are handled and reported appropriately and kept under review.
Our expertise
Strong safeguarding culture requires effective governance and leadership, clear delegation and a proactive approach to risk management, and cogent expectations of what is and is not acceptable in terms of conduct. It also requires appropriate action to be taken when issues or concerns are raised. The particular requirements vary depending on an organisation's structure and operation and the people it is interacting with.
Our experienced safeguarding lawyers provide tailored advice to help you create a safe environment, audits to check whether you have one and advice on how to manage incidents or concerns.
Tabitha Cave is simply brilliant. She has a sharp and fast brain, layers and layers of experience, brilliant communication skills, courage, clarity and calmness.
Our work highlights
Advising multiple schools on matters of child-on-child bullying and abuse of all ages, often with associated special educational needs and disability.
Advising a school group on the arrest of a member of staff on suspicion of offences relating to child cruelty.
Advising a school on the child death review and inquest processes following the suspected suicide of a pupil.
