Digital ACE Safeguarding and Prevent Guidance Materials
Our Digital ACE Safeguarding and Prevent guidance materials aim to supply providers with enough information to review and adapt their approach to safeguarding and Prevent to ensure that they are keeping learners, staff, partners and visitors safe in an online model.
This guidance also provides links to examples of good practice and more in-depth analysis of approaches to safeguarding and Prevent relevant to online delivery.
The guidance assumes that all practitioners already have robust policies and processes around safeguarding and Prevent, and it builds on the existing good practice in organisations.
Digital Safeguarding and Prevent Guidance document
Annexes
Click on the below links to download our customisable annexes. These are available for you to ‘adopt and adapt’.
Annex 1 – Online Safeguarding Review (Audit)
Annex 2 – Southend Adult Community College’s Safeguarding Policy Addendum
Annex 3 – ACL Essex’s Prevent and Safeguarding Strategy Risk Assessment
Annex 4 – Gateshead LearningSkills’s Home Working Policy
Annex 5 – Gateshead Council’s Home working Guidance
Annex 6 – Southend’s FAQ’s – from virtual Safeguarding surgery
Annex 7 – Southend’s Safeguarding tips – Staying safe online – avoiding Fraud
Annex 8 – ACL Essex’s Keeping Safe Newsletter no 2
Annex 9 – Stockport Adult Learning’s Knowledge Organiser for learners
Annex 10 – Thurrock Adult Community Learning’s Staff blog – staying sane and healthy working online
Annex 11 – ACL Essex’s Online links for mental health support
Digital Safeguarding and Prevent Webinar
Digital Safeguarding and Prevent – YouTube Tutorials
Undertaking a Review of your Organisation’s Online Approach to Safeguarding and Prevent (for DSLs/Senior Leaders)
Jill Newton talks us though Undertaking a Review of your Organisation’s Online Approach to Safeguarding and Prevent (for DSLs/Senior Leaders). The session considers how to encompass and mobilise the whole organisation to promote and embed safeguarding in an online environment. It also considers how to review current processes and systems to identify gaps and reflect on their effectiveness.
Developing Safeguarding and Prevent Good Practice in your Online Classroom
Jill Newton talks us though developing Safeguarding and Prevent Good Practice in the online classroom. The session aims to give a better understanding of safeguarding learners in an online learning environment, considers signs and indicators of potential online abuse and how to react to these. It also considers the importance of embedding safeguarding topics in class discussions and having a ‘netiquette’ list of rules that includes keeping safe online.