Safeguarding reaches across all sectors that employ, educate, manage, coach or deal with children and young people. Our team is regularly instructed by the sports sector, retail sector and education sector.
It is important that children and young people feel safe and protected in their environment. The principles of safeguarding are simple – recognise, respond, report and review. Our safeguarding team comprises of specialists from our regulatory, employment, commercial, and reputational management teams.
What do we do?
Our safeguarding team has first-hand experience in delivering specialist safeguarding training, developing safeguarding systems and documents for organisations and crisis managing safeguarding investigations when disclosures are made.
Examples of our safeguarding team’s work include:
- Developing a safeguarding policy and supporting suite of documents and training guides for a national retailer who employed child models for advertising campaigns.
- Providing immediate out-of-hours reputational management advice to a high-profile Olympic coach who had been exposed on social media following a targeted internet trolling campaign.
- Advising and assisting a national squad coach in relation to an alleged safeguarding investigation which led to their suspension.
- Challenging DBS disclosure information for individuals.
- Providing legal advice in the police station when safeguarding allegations are referred to the police for investigation.
- Delivering live safeguarding webinars for coaches and sporting organisations.
- Representing individuals in the criminal courts charged with safeguarding abuse allegations.
- Representing clubs owners, directors and coaches in governing body and police safeguarding investigations.
