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ELEMENTAL UK POLICY ON WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

Elemental UK staff are all required to have read and understood the centres child protection policy.

Staff are reminded not to:

  • Befriend a young person.
  • Find themselves alone with a young person under any circumstance

All staff are however in a professional capacity to ensure all young people are having fun and doing so in a safe environment.

Young people are unlikely to disclose major personal details/problems purely as the environment does not lend itself to such personal expression.

Elemental UK staff are advised in the unlikely event of young person about to disclose personal issues:

  1. To state their position in that anything that is told to you will not under any circumstance be kept a secret. It will be passed onto the centre Manager to deal with as deemed appropriate.
  2. They can then offer them the support of either coming with them to their teacher (the staff having told the centre manager first) or give them a Child Support Number to call.

ALL DISCUSSIONS OF THIS NATURE WILL BE PASSED ON AND DOCUMENTED WITH THE CENTRE MANAGER.

STAFF ARE ADVISED:

  • not to give out personal details under any circumstances to a young person
  • not discuss details of a personal nature with parents

IMPORTANT SUPPORT NUMBERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Anti-Bullying Campaign : 020 7378 1446 (10:00am to 4:00pm, Mon-Fri)

Careers : (01903) 205612 see also careers office

Childline : 0800 11 11 or 020 7239 1000 : website : www.childline.co.uk

or by post : Childline, Freepost 1111, London N1

Citizens Advice : (01903) 231972 see also Citizens Advice Bureau

Crimestoppers : 0800 555111

Homeless : (01903) 219499

Message home : A confidential helpline for those who have left home or run away to send a message home and/or get advice and help.

Freephone : 0800 700 740, 24hours a day, 7 days a week

Rape Crisis Centre : (01273) 203773

Saneline : 12:00noon – 2:00am : 08457 678 000

The Samaritans : national 08457 90 90 90

textphone 08457 90 91 92 (for the deaf, hard of hearing & speech impaired)

Websites : www.samaritans.org.uk : www.samaritans.org.uk/~brighton

or e-mail : jo@samaritans.org

West Sussex Mental Healthline : 0845 300 2727 see also mental health

Youth 2 Youth : Confidential e-mail and helpline support and info on any issue run for and by young people.

Tel : 0208 896 3675 or e-mail : help@youth2youth.co.uk