School Ready Kids Ltd
Organisation: School Ready Kids Ltd
Named Safeguarding Lead: Stavroula Alachiotis-Merchant
Date of Most Recent Review: September 2025
School Ready Kids Ltd is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. Safeguarding is central to all services we provide, including SEND leadership support, advisory work, assessments, training and therapeutic or reintegration services.
This Safeguarding Policy Statement sets out our commitment to protecting individuals from harm and ensuring that safeguarding concerns are recognised, responded to and managed appropriately.
School Ready Kids Ltd works in accordance with current safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance, including but not limited to:
Children Act 1989 and 2004
Care Act 2014
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023)
Keeping Children Safe in Education (current version)
Information Sharing: Advice for Practitioners (2024)
After-school clubs, community activities and tuition: safeguarding guidance (2023)
We also have regard to guidance issued by:
The Department for Education
Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships
The NSPCC
The Ann Craft Trust (safeguarding adults)
The purpose of this safeguarding statement is to:
Protect children, young people and adults at risk who receive services from School Ready Kids Ltd
Provide clear safeguarding principles that underpin all our work
Ensure safeguarding concerns are managed consistently, lawfully and effectively
Support safe professional practice across leadership, advisory and child-focused services
School Ready Kids Ltd is committed to:
Creating and maintaining a safe environment where individuals feel respected, listened to and protected
Recognising signs and indicators of abuse, neglect, exploitation and emotional harm
Acting promptly and proportionately where safeguarding concerns arise
Ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are understood and upheld in all professional contexts
Working collaboratively with schools, local authorities and statutory agencies
All work is carried out in a professional, ethical and child-centred manner.
School Ready Kids Ltd will:
Maintain up-to-date safeguarding knowledge through regular training and professional development
Conduct all interactions in a safe, appropriate and professional way
Follow the safeguarding policies and procedures of any contracting school, college, trust or organisation
Maintain accurate and timely records of safeguarding concerns and actions taken
Share information on a need-to-know basis, in line with information-sharing guidance
Store personal and sensitive data securely, in accordance with UK GDPR and professional standards
If a safeguarding concern is identified, School Ready Kids Ltd will:
Act promptly and in the best interests of the individual
Record concerns, decisions and actions clearly and factually
Report concerns to the appropriate agency, which may include:
Children’s or Adult Social Care
The Designated Safeguarding Lead within a school or organisation
The police, where there is immediate risk of harm
Cooperate fully with any safeguarding enquiries or investigations
Safeguarding responsibilities override confidentiality where there is a risk of harm.
When working with schools, colleges, trusts or local authorities, School Ready Kids Ltd will:
Adhere to the organisation’s safeguarding and whistleblowing procedures
Clarify reporting routes at the outset of the work
Work collaboratively with Designated Safeguarding Leads and senior leaders
Escalate concerns appropriately where necessary
School Ready Kids Ltd recognises the importance of confidentiality but understands that safeguarding concerns must be shared where:
There is a risk of harm
Disclosure is required by law
It is necessary to protect a child, young person or adult at risk
Information is shared proportionately, lawfully and in line with statutory guidance.
This Safeguarding Policy Statement is reviewed annually, or sooner if there are changes to legislation, guidance or organisational practice.
The most up-to-date version is available via the School Ready Kids Ltd website.
School Ready Kids Ltd confirms its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, and to ensuring that safeguarding is embedded in all aspects of our work.