Safeguarding is about protecting children, young people and adults at risk from significant and serious harm and keeping them safe. It involves identifying children and adults at risk who have suffered harm, or who may be at risk of harm, and working with them and other agencies in order to protect them from avoidable harms. The Tuberous Sclerosis Association (TSA) is committed to ensure that their safety is a priority and that vulnerable clients are safeguarded at all times.

This policy applies to all TSA trustees, staff, management, ambassadors and volunteers and recognises that safeguarding is everyone’s business.

This policy outlines how TSA will deliver its specific objective of improving safeguarding practice in the charity, reflecting our commitment to prevent and reduce the risk of abuse and neglect of children, young people and adults.

Confidentiality is essential to the environment of trust with clients, but this needs to be balanced against the organisation’s common law duty to protect vulnerable members of the community, including TSA’s own staff. TSA will apply robust risk management processes for the identification of situations which may require the organisation to make professional judgments to protect vulnerable people from harm.

The TSA takes safeguarding adults at risk and children seriously, and this policy and associated procedures will be kept under regular review consistent with any national or local Safeguarding Policy changes. We expect the same from those who deliver services on our behalf.

Please click here to read the TSA’s safeguarding policy for children, young people and adults at risk.