POLICY STATEMENT

THMP is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all individuals associated with our organization, particularly children, young people, and at-risk adults. We recognize our duty of care and responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all individuals, and we strive to create an environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and respected.

  • THMP considers the welfare and protection of children, women, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives.
  • THMP has a zero tolerance approach to the harm of children, women, young people and vulnerable adults. THMP recognises that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and that it has a responsibility to put in place reasonable measures to ensure, as far as possible, the safety and wellbeing of the children, women, young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work, and to protect the communities in which THMP operates from harm caused by its programmes or the Addressees.
  • THMP believes that everyone has an equal right to protection from abuse and exploitation regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or having a child, gender reassignment, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.
  • THMP is committed to responding promptly, appropriately and constructively to all information presented from children and young people, and pledges to always believe and act on any disclosures made.
  • THMP values the contribution of children, women, young people and vulnerable adults and considers them to be key partners in developing and improving safeguarding procedures and services.

PRINCIPLES

THMP commits itself to the following principles identified in the Care Act (2014) statutory guidance in its approach to safeguarding children, women, young people and vulnerable adults. These principles should be upheld by all those to whom this policy addresses.

  1. Empowerment: The importance of beginning with the assumption that each individual is best placed to judge that individual’s wellbeing.
  2. Protection: Support and representation for those in greatest need.
  3. Prevention: Prevention of harm is a primary objective.
  4. Proportionality: A proportional and least intrusive response appropriate to risk.
  5. Partnership: Local solutions through services working in communities.
  6. Accountability: Accountability and transparency in delivering safeguarding