Issue - meetings

To seek Member’s approval and adoption of the updated Leisure and Arts Service Safeguarding Children’s Policy.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the attached Safeguarding Children’s Policy be adopted for the Leisure and Arts Service; and

RESOLVED that

2)         a working group of Officers be set up to progress a corporate safeguarding policy for Redditch Borough Council.

Officers presented a new, enhanced Safeguarding Children’s Policy for the Leisure and Arts Service which built upon the existing policy in that Service.

Members were very supportive of the proposal and noted that the Policy was intended to provide protection not only to Children but also to Council staff and that the obligations on staff and children were complementary. Officers confirmed that there no provisions within the Policy that were particularly dictated by local to the Borough

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the attached Safeguarding Children’s Policy be adopted for the Leisure and Arts Service; and

RESOLVED that

2)         a working group of Officers be set up to progress a corporate safeguarding policy for Redditch Borough Council.