Name: Helen Osmond
Phone: 07984 971019
Email: info@osmondeducation.co.uk
Osmond Education is fully committed to ensuring that all children are kept safe and the purpose of this safeguarding policy is to set out how every student, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background, has a safe and positive experience with Osmond Education.
This policy demonstrates how Osmond Education’s safeguarding practices reflect our statutory responsibilities, government guidance and best practice.
At Osmond Education we believe and recognise that:
Osmond Education will seek to keep children and young people safe, managing risks and reducing the likelihood of abuse by:
The policy applies both to all tutors as well any other staff members of Osmond Education, and its tuition services.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is defined as:
(Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), DfE, September 2025)
Abuse is a form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm or by failing to act to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting by those known to them or, more rarely, by others. Abuse can take place wholly online, or technology may be used to facilitate offline abuse. Children may be abused by an adult or adults or by another child or children (KCSIE, 2025, para 26).
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and The Tutors’ Association Code of Conduct requires Osmond Education to carry out specific vetting (enhanced DBS and barred list checks) on staff or tutors if they work with children and vulnerable people.
All tutors must successfully pass a live, online interview before being accepted to work with Osmond Education.
Tutors will be required to provide proof of identification during their live interview. This will be verified by the interviewer during the live interview.
We require all tutors to have a valid enhanced Criminal Background check to tutor on the platform.
Osmond Education considers a criminal background record check to be valid if it:
All new tutors joining Osmond Education will be required to have an updated Enhanced DBS Check with Child Barring Service, unless they are registered on the DBS Update Service prior to starting work with Osmond Education. Tutors will be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service, if they are not already, to ensure their ongoing suitability as per The Tutors Association’s Code of Practice. Tutors who teach or reside in Scotland, Wales, NI or abroad may be subject to additional checks at the request of Osmond Education.
Section 242 of KCSIE 2025 states “Once the checks are complete, the DBS will send a DBS certificate to the applicant. The applicant must show the original paper DBS certificate to their potential employer before they take up the post, or as soon as practicable afterwards.”
All tutors must share a copy of their DBS certificate with Osmond Education once it has been issued. Osmond Education will retain a copy of the certificate and confirm renewal annually, in line with KCSIE 2025 guidance.
Tutors will not be allowed to work with Osmond Education until we have received the results of their DBS check.
Tutors on the Update Service will be expected to provide a copy of the original DBS certificate to Osmond Education so a check can be conducted before they can work with Osmond Education.
As an organisation using Disclosure information for the purpose of assessing an applicant’s suitability for employment purposes we undertake to treat all applicants fairly. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.
We are committed to the fair treatment of our staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background.
A Disclosure should only be requested after a thorough risk assessment has indicated that one is both proportionate and relevant to the position concerned. For those positions where a disclosure is required, all application forms, job adverts, and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested.
Unless the nature of the position allows us to ask questions about your entire criminal record, we will only ask about “Unspent” convictions as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
All tutors are required to submit a minimum of 2 reference checks before being accepted as a tutor working through Osmond Education.
Reference checks must be:
References will be asked for during onboarding. If a tutor fails to have 2 complete and relevant references, they will not be permitted to tutor as part of Osmond Education.
Osmond Education believes that training and raising awareness of safeguarding issues, policies and procedures is fundamental to the development and maintenance of a safer environment, safer organisation and safer staff/ tutors.
We ensure that appropriate safeguarding training is provided to all staff and tutors to assist them in:
Safeguarding training at the appropriate level to the role and responsibilities held is a mandatory element of all inductions for staff and tutors. Furthermore, safeguarding training is not regarded as a ‘once only’ activity, but as an ongoing development of skills and knowledge of safeguarding practices.
It’s vital that you report any safeguarding concerns to Osmond Education’s Designated Safeguarding Officer so we can investigate fully. All Safeguarding concerns will be investigated within 24 hours of Osmond Education receiving the report.
To help the team respond and refer appropriately you should follow the guidance below.
Osmond Education will deal appropriately and promptly with all allegations or concerns and refer all safeguarding concerns or allegations about its directors, staff or tutors immediately to the appropriate local authority designated officer (LADO) in accordance with local safeguarding procedures and practical guidance, in accordance with the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2018.
Osmond Education will consider immediate suspension (without prejudice) if a safeguarding allegation is made against any staff member or tutor pending investigation when there is cause to suspect that another child(ren) is/are at risk of harm from their continued contact with children. Refer to KCSIE 2025, Part 4: 386.
Suspension will also be considered even if the allegation is not linked to their role or activity with Osmond Education.
Once a disclosure has been made or a concern has been shared, the Safeguarding Team will consider the information, if necessary, taking advice, and will make a decision to either:
Where a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer from harm, it is important that a referral to children’s social care (and if appropriate the police) is made immediately.
Once the decision is made to make a referral the Safeguarding Team will contact the relevant Children’s Social Care Team and make a telephone referral. This must be followed up in writing within 24 hours.
Where a child is identified at immediate risk of harm then the tutor will immediately contact the Designated Safeguarding Lead who will in turn contact the Police for the areas where the risk is located using 999.
All Osmond Education’s staff and tutors have a shared responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. They should know how to recognise, respond to, report and record any safeguarding concerns.
All staff and tutors are responsible for following the organisation’s safeguarding procedures for reporting any concerns relating to abuse or neglect or suspected abuse or neglect of any child or young person immediately.
In an emergency staff and tutors will be expected to report urgent concerns directly to the relevant statutory agency.
If a complaint is identified as a potential safeguarding concern, then the Safeguarding Procedures will be followed.
What to do if you’re worried about a Child is being Abused, 2015
Child Sexual Exploitation Guidance 2017
Information Sharing Advice for Safeguarding Practitioners 2018
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 places a general duty on schools to work and cooperate with other agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Osmond Education is committed to do this by having an open, honest and transparent line of communication.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 (KCSIE) is statutory guidance issued from the Department for Education under Section 175 of the Education Act 2002. Schools and colleges must have regard to this when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children.
sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges 2021 – the advice provided by the DfE sets out what sexual violence and sexual harassment is, how to minimise the risk of it occurring and what to do when it does occur or is alleged to have occurred.
Children’s Code is a statutory code of practice that articulates how online services likely to be accessed by children should comply with the UK GDPR when using children’s data.
