Children First: Preparing Your Child Safeguarding Statement

From 11 December 2017, individuals and organisations that have regular access to or contact with children must undertake a risk assessment of any particular harm to a child and specifically put in place a child safeguarding statement. This is necessary in order to comply with the Children First Act 2015.

The Act sets out a list of what it calls "relevant services". If you provide a service on this list and you employ at least one other person to carry out any work relating to this service, you must ensure, as far as practicable, that any child availing of your service is safe from harm. To do this, you must:

1. undertake a risk assessment of any potential risk/harm to a child while availing of your service;