Safety and compliance

Recording a safeguarding incident

The log every hall hopes never to need.

0:57 long

What this covers

  1. Safeguarding Log, then New safeguarding incident
  2. What happened, and how serious
  3. Who reported it and who it went to
  4. Keep it confidential if it needs to be

Step by step, in writing

The same guide as the video. Tap a time to jump to that moment.

  1. 0:02

    Safeguarding concerns must be written down

    Even the ones that come to nothing. A missing record is the thing that causes trouble later.

  2. 0:04

    Open Safeguarding Log from the menu

  3. 0:06

    Choose New safeguarding incident

  4. 0:09

    Give the entry a short title

    Factual, not a judgement. This is the line that appears in the list.

  5. 0:13

    Set when it happened

  6. 0:18

    Judge how serious it is

  7. 0:22

    Say where it stands

  8. 0:25

    Write down what happened

    Stick to what was seen and heard. Opinions belong in the outcome, not here.

  9. 0:37

    Who raised it

  10. 0:40

    Who it was passed to

  11. 0:43

    And when it was passed on

  12. 0:48

    Save the entry

  13. 0:52

    The record is made

    Entries marked confidential are visible only to the people who need to see them.

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