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SEQUIN Safeguarding Group Meeting Wednesday 4 July 2012 Medway Community Learning Rochester Present: Sue Hopkins (MCL), Heather Drew (MCL), Mark Easton (Kent), Lisa Woodward (Surrey), Gary Bassett (Medway) Notes: HD Agenda item Discussion Points 1 Apologies: Christine Jervis (East Sussex), Ruth James (West Sussex), Lynne Smith (West Sussex) Welcome: Mark Easton who is replacing Mary Lynn Updates: 2 Terms of Reference – Medway Adult and Community Learning Service to be now known as Medway Community Learning Action Points Heather to update Terms of Reference and put onto Moodle. Mark Easton, Business Manager, strategic lead for Safeguarding in Kent. Antoinette Barnes updates all policies, etc. Job description outlining role of SG Officer 3 Safeguarding Training: Mark to send out new version to group. Kent – mandatory training on Moodle – they are able to track who has done the training. They have a KSCB certificated training course on Safeguarding run through the KCC Safeguarding Board planned for 11 July that they have available spaces on that SEQUIN group can use. Carol Lambert will send out more details. Medway – writing a new module to go on Moodle along with a workbook that learners can do – draft was available to look at. Going to combine Health & Safety with Safeguarding. Surrey – have an initial awareness pack which is paper based (Moodle not up and running yet) with a quiz at the end. They also have a mandatory two-hour attendance unit for Support Learning Curriculum Leader, etc. 4 E-safety: Discussion on e-safety procedures, policies, software restrictions, blocks on student computers that aren’t managed by KCC ICT. Medway to look at improving their e-safety and having a statement in their existing safeguarding policy – included in their new training package. Kent. E-safety to go on our new posters. Heather had downloaded the LSIS e-safety unit, which has been dropped into the LSIS online Safeguarding course and printed it off. Copies done for Kent and Surrey. Mark to arrange with Carol to send out details of training. 5 Moodle Safeguarding Forum: Sue showed group the SEQUIN Safeguarding Forum on Moodle. Discussion around what Moodle can do. 6 Safeguarding Posters: Discussion around existing posters and then brainstorm of new posters: Adults at Risk (of harm) Partnership to create safe working environment (S.W.E.) How do we get them to understand S.W.E? How we make it accessible – is there terminology that we need to use? 2 versions – more sophisticated – 16-23 age group Range of adults at risk – ESOL Learners Rotational Posters Being Safe Keeping Safe Respect Posters to include: Physical – domestic – self harm Psychological/emotional (use different term – feelings? Neglect Financial E-safety Group to use Forum more regularly and upload and share documents. Group to share Safeguarding Cases that are actually arising and what we did about them. Gary to look at producing posters for the start of the new academic year. Sexual Not to include discrimination as it is covered elsewhere Diagrams Text Very visual Use word “harm” instead of “abuse” Portrait/Landscape Colour scheme for each harm Contact to be very prominent Jo McSherrie - a former member of the SEQUIN Safeguaridng Group and now works at Treloar – it was suggested that she may have some posters that we could get some ideas from. 7 Any Other Business Kent had an inspection and questions were asked about what Inspectors were looking at: risk assessments, health and safety, asking learners and staff how safe they felt, marking up of potentially dangerous substances, the level of supervision to young people, checking policies, etc. Heather to email her