Affordable Health Initiative
Safeguarding and Child Protection Agreement
Affordable Health Initiative (AHI) is a comprehensive whole-school approach, which incorporates the principles of the Ottawa Charter and delivers a simple, scalable and sustainable operational model for the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Health Promoting School (HPS) initiative.
See: http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/index4.html and http://www.who.int/school_youth_health/gshi/hps/en/).
Safeguarding is central to AHI CIO. Our mission is “For the public benefit, to preserve and protect the health and to advance the education of people throughout the world in such ways as the trustees see fit.’
The list of documents below (and attached) describe the AHI HPS model and the AHI policies – signature is an agreement that all signatories have read, understood and will abide by these policies:
AHI health promoting school model (https://www.affordablehealthinitiative.com/what-we-do-2)
AHI strategy for 2019-2020
AHI safeguarding policy statement
AHI safeguarding policy
AHI handling safeguarding concerns about children and adults
AHI governance code of conduct (webpage here)
AHI governance code of ethics
Schools implementing AHI are:
a safe place to be;
o Have health and safety arrangements in place
o Have first aid, fire safety and digital safety policies in place
o Staff working directly with children have updated criminal records checks or local equivalent checks
Staff working directly with children have attended a training on safeguarding of children.
a health promoting school that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working.
a team of respectful, tolerant, open-minded people;
a community where everyone aspires to be the best they can be;
a community of resilient lifelong learners;
a community that values social capital (family ties, friends/friendship ties, social networks and cognitive aspects such as trust, attachment to neighbourhood, tolerance of others, and reciprocity) and social cohesion (caring for oneself and others).
Purpose
The aim of the safeguarding and child protection agreement document is to outline how the school will:
Run the AHI HPS model
Promote a positive school ethos where children can learn, feel secure and be safe.
Prevent unsuitable people working with children and young people.
Promote safe practice and challenge poor and unsafe practice.
Identify instances in which there are grounds for concern about a child's welfare and initiate or take appropriate action to keep them safe.
Contribute to effective partnership working between AHI CIO and all those involved with providing services for children, young people and their parents.
The headteacher will act or appoint a safeguarding lead and nominate one or more deputy safeguarding leads. Their names and contact details are listed below.
Name of Designated Safeguarding Lead:
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Name/s of deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead/s:
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Approved By:
Head Teacher …………………………………………………………. Date……/……/……