Safeguarding Checklist for visitors

If you’re visiting our school, to make sure everything goes safely and smoothly follow this helpful check list:

Before your visit

• Make sure you understand and follow our processes for visitors, whichever capacity you are visiting in.
• Confirm the date and time of your visit with us. Make sure you know who to ask for when you arrive.
• If you’re self-employed or visiting on behalf of an organisation, be prepared to share your safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures in advance. We will need to check that your safeguarding measures meet their standards.
• Organisations should provide us with written confirmation that visitors have been recruited following safer recruitment. This includes confirmation that anyone working or volunteering with children has undergone the relevant vetting and barring checks. We will need to check these procedures meet their standards.
• If you are self-employed, it’s best practice to show us evidence that you have carried out the appropriate vetting and barring checks for self-employed people.
• If you plan to take photographs of children and young people as part of your work, you must seek prior permission from the school.

Make sure you know how to recognise and respond to any concerns about a child’s safety or welfare.

During the visit

• Be prepared to show identification when you arrive.
• Follow our code of conduct.
• Only go into areas of the school you’ve been permitted to enter.
• You should only be alone with children if we have given you permission. If you are working one-to-one with a child, make sure you put the appropriate safeguarding measures in place.

If you identify a safeguarding or child protection concern

• Report it by following our and your own procedures.
• Keep a record of your concern.
• If needed, work with us to support any ongoing work with that child and their family, including referrals to other agencies.