Policies

Safeguarding and Welfare Policy 2026

Safeguarding determines the actions that we take to keep children safe and protect them from harm in all aspects of their life.

Creative Crawley believes that it is always unacceptable for a child or young person to experience abuse of any kind and recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children, young people and vulnerable adults by a commitment to a practice which protects them.

This policy applies to all Creative Crawley employees (freelance and PAYE), volunteers and sessional workers and all the children, young people and vulnerable adults Creative Crawley works with.

We aim to provide safe participatory and creative opportunities for all the children, young people and vulnerable adults who are part of our projects.

In order to do this we recognise that:

• The welfare of the child/young person/vulnerable adult is paramount.
• All children, young people and vulnerable adults whatever their age, culture, disability, gender, language, racial origin, religious beliefs and/or sexual identity have the right to equal protection from all types of harm or abuse.
• Working in partnership with children, young people and vulnerable adults, their parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting their welfare. The purpose of the policy is:
• To provide protection for the children, young people and vulnerable adults who receive services from the Creative Crawley, including the children of adult members or users.
• To provide staff and volunteers with guidance on procedures they should adopt in the event that they suspect a child, young person or vulnerable adult may be experiencing, or be at risk of, harm.

Creative Crawley will operate safeguarding procedures in line with multi-agency safeguarding arrangements put in place by the safeguarding partners.

We will endeavour to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults by:

• Adopting child protection guidelines through procedures and a code of conduct for staff and volunteers.
• Recruiting staff and volunteers safely ensuring all necessary checks are made.
• Sharing information about child protection and good practice with children, parents, staff and volunteers.
• Sharing information about concerns with agencies who need to know, involving parents and children appropriately.
• Providing effective management for staff and volunteers through supervision, support and training.

We are also committed to reviewing our policy and good practice annually.

Please find a link to the full policy here: Safeguarding and Welfare Policy updated Jan 2026

Environmental Responsibility Policy

You can read the policy here: Environmental Responsibility Policy.docx

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy

You can read the policy here:Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy- Jan 2026