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Top tips for safe practices in your dance school Explore essential strategies to bolster safeguarding efforts in your dance school, from rigorous recruitment procedures to maintaining professional boundaries. Learn how to protect children and adults at risk and find valuable resources to keep your knowledge up to date. Safer recruitment Empower your dance school with safety first: protecting the future of dance through vigilant safeguarding.
Ensure you do your checks and recruit parttime and full-time staff with due diligence. • Carry out a fair and rigorous interview, check DBS and references, teaching qualifications, first aid and safeguarding. • Commence a probationary period with a contract of employment. • Carry out a thorough induction programme of support and training introducing all the school’s polices and processes, and ensuring the staff member feels supported and is aptly equipped to carry out their role in your school. When employing freelancers for workshops ensure that you have obtained their CV, references and have checked their DBS as a minimum. Update risk assessments for any change of activity within your studios. Ensure any temporary staff are adequately supervised and observed to ensure there is no risk to your children and your classes.
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Join our CPD in May 2024! Applied Safeguarding: Attending or Hosting Events When we are away from our dance schools, either at competitions, festivals or shows are we carrying out the same safeguarding checks and principles? Do you plan for this? Do you transfer your knowledge and skill of safeguarding to these events? The next course will guide you with this and will include areas such as: • Risk Assessments • Chaperones and Body of Persons Applications • Travelling and Hotels • Changing Facilities • Photography • Considerations for Organisers
Rushing into business decisions without careful planning can lead to inadequate safeguarding measures. It’s essential to take the time to think through the implications for safeguarding and how it will affect your school before making any hasty decisions. 10 Dance | Issue 500
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