Staying Safe

  • Capstone undertakes extensive checks on carers pre-approval and also checks other people having regular and close contact with placed children
     
  • Unannounced visits are made regularly
     
  • Health & safety checks are rigorous and carers are required to draw up their own safer caring and other policies
     
  • Capstone has a clear policy on bullying and robust procedures about restraint, children going missing and child protection
     
  • Training focuses on the need for carers to ensure the safety of children placed with them not only by the boundaries they put in place for the child, but also by the way in which they safeguard themselves from being injured by an oppositional child, and by learning how to reduce the emotional temperature around a child or young person on the verge of kicking off
     
  • Carers are taught how to do their own risk-assessments so that children in their care are not discouraged from the sort of normal risk-taking adventurous behaviours that children and young people engage in as part of healthy development.