Broadside Music will:

• treat every young person with dignity, kindness and respect;

• listen to young people and take their concerns seriously;

• respond promptly and appropriately to safeguarding concerns;

• maintain clear professional boundaries between adults and participants;

• ensure staff are appropriately recruited, checked and briefed;

• take reasonable steps to identify and reduce risks;

• work appropriately with parents, carers, venues and safeguarding agencies.

The Summer School will have a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Deputy DSL. Their details will be provided to participants, parents and staff before the course.

Staff will be briefed to recognise and report concerns about a young person's safety or welfare. A concern might arise from something a participant says, something a member of staff observes, information received from somebody else or a pattern of behaviour that causes concern.

If a young person makes a disclosure, staff will listen carefully, take them seriously and explain that information may need to be shared with somebody who can help keep them safe. Staff will not investigate concerns themselves or promise confidentiality.

All safeguarding concerns will be reported promptly to the DSL or Deputy DSL and recorded securely. Where necessary, Broadside Music will seek advice or make a referral to the appropriate safeguarding authority.

If a young person is in immediate danger or requires urgent medical assistance, the emergency services will be contacted.

Any concern about the behaviour of an adult working on the Summer School will be taken seriously. This includes behaviour that may not meet the threshold for a formal safeguarding allegation but raises concerns about professional boundaries or suitability to work with young people.

Broadside Music also recognises that children can harm other children. Bullying, harassment, discrimination, coercion, abuse and harmful online behaviour will not be dismissed as banter or an inevitable part of young people's relationships.

Any such concern will be handled with the welfare and safeguarding needs of all young people involved in mind.

Parents and carers are important partners in safeguarding. We will normally work openly with families when a concern arises, unless doing so could place a young person at greater risk or compromise an appropriate safeguarding response.

Safeguarding information will be handled sensitively and shared only where there is a legitimate reason to do so.