Safeguarding of Children

On the 4^th of August this year, the Citizen Newspaper reported that a school caretaker was found guilty of rape and sexual assault. The caretaker had raped the first child in 2015, and then sexually assaulted the second in 2017 as a revenge act for being reported. Read the article here.

Are you doing everything you can to ensure the children in your care are safe and protected?  In terms of Section 126 of the Children’s Act (Act No. of 38 of 2005), all organizations working with or having access to children are required to assess and verify the suitability of their employees and potential employees.

All too often we hear of children being abused by the very people that are meant to protect them. Are you compliant with the Child Care and Child Protection Legislation?

Join our law expert Angus Bailie as he discusses these critical points:

• Safeguarding Polices and Codes of Conduct
• The role of the Safeguarding Officer
• Appointing a Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO)
• Recruitment and Legal obligations of vetting staff

MORE ABOUT ANGUS:

We love doing webinars with Angus. He has a wealth of knowledge that he generously shares this with attendees. This coupled with his dry sense of humour make Angus’s webinars both highly valuable, informative and entertaining. Angus is an admitted attorney with over 20 years’ experience, 13 of which have been in his own law firm. Angus’s experience includes being appointed as an Acting Judge in the Labour Court in 2017. He has lectured part-time for the faculties of Law and Science at Pearson Institute and the faculty of Law for the University of the Free State and is a SETA accredited facilitator and trainer.,