Safeguarding at Aerobility 

Aerobility is committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of all participants and expects all staff, trustees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, participants and staff at Aerobility.  

 

Purpose

Aerobility works with children and families as part of its activities. These include: providing flight training, youth programmes, flight simulation training, social events, and fundraising events. The purpose of this policy is to describe:

  • how we aim to promote the wellbeing of children, young people and vulnerable adults who make use of our services and whom we come into contact with

  • our responsibilities for safeguarding colleagues and volunteers, as well as children, young people, vulnerable adults and their families

  • our code of contact and best practice methods

Safeguarding Team 

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)  

Mike Miller-Smith 

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSL)  

Hailey Crumpton  

Safeguarding Trustee

Neil Tucker 

Accountability for Safeguarding

Trustees

Aerobility’s Board of Trustees are accountable for ensuring that the organisation has appropriate structure, processes, and resources in place to ensure safeguarding is central to everything it does. The board also monitor compliance.

Chief Executive

The Chief Executive is the senior individual accountable for all aspects of safeguarding across the organisation, including a strong culture of safeguarding.

Senior Leadership Team (SLT)

Each member of SLT is accountable for keeping safeguarding as a core practice in their responsibilities. This includes making sure that employees are adequately trained.

Designated Safeguarding Lead

The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is strategically and operationally accountable for safeguarding across . They are accountable for making sure safeguarding policy and practice is developed, implemented, managed, and monitored.

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

The Deputy Safeguarding Lead is responsible for giving safeguarding advice and guidance across the organisation. 

Independent Person

The Independent Person is available as a point of contact for raising concerns. In our charity they are also responsible for ensuring safeguarding training is available and can be accessed by all staff.

  

Cause for Concern 

Our first priority is the welfare of all participants and we are required to take any reasonable action to ensure the safety of everyone at all times. However, there may be occasions when Aerobility has reasons to be concerned that a participant may be subject to ill-treatment, neglect or other forms of abuse. We will ensure that our concerns are discussed first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to their welfare. In this case we are obliged to follow the procedures established by Hampshire County Council Social Services and inform them of the concern. 

If you are worried about a child’s safety, please do not hesitate to contact the DSLs on 0303 303 1230. 

  

Please see our policy below:  

 

Aerobility Safeguarding Policy