EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
SENAD offers staff training in anti-discriminatory practice as part of our mandatory training and embraces difference and diversity across all settings. We support our staff and the young people we care for to embrace the multicultural society in which we live. We treat all the children and young people with the same respect for their individuality regardless of their disability. In line with The Equality Act 2010, we take every reasonable step to ensure that young people are not disadvantaged or excluded from any activity.
MISSING FROM CARE
We very rarely experience any young person missing from our care.
All young people have an individualised risk assessment and major hazard sheet. This identifies all known risks and places control measures to attempt to reduce the risk. It is important that we allow our young people to take risks so that they can learn and develop, but this is done in a controlled manner. If a young person is identified as being at risk of going missing, a specific missing person protocol will be completed. This will give specific areas of risk, identify hazards and control measures that must be put in place. These include proactive measures that are put in place to support that young person. The protocol specifies at what point the Police should be contacted. Due to the vulnerability of the young people, it has been agreed with Derbyshire Police that they will be considered missing rather than absent. All protocols are shared with local Police. They are accompanied by an Appendix A, as set out by Derbyshire Constabulary. The Appendix includes all the information the Police require when first contact is made and ensures the correct response is given speedily. We are active members of the Philomena Protocol with Derbyshire Police, ensuring that the missing person process is quicker due to the information on file about the young person.
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