Policies

Safeguarding & privacy

The safety and wellbeing of every young person in our care comes first. Here’s how we keep them safe and how we look after your information.

Safeguarding

Lisburn Cathedral Scout Group is part of The Scouts and follows its national safeguarding policy and procedures. In practice, that means:

  • All adult volunteers go through the Scouts vetting process, including an AccessNI criminal record check where their role requires it, and references.
  • Every adult completes safeguarding and safety training, which is refreshed regularly.
  • Adults follow the Safeguarding Code of Conduct for Adults (the “Yellow Card”), including never being alone with a young person where they can’t be seen by others.
  • Activities are planned and risk assessed, and adventurous activities are led by people with the right permits and qualifications.

Reporting a concern

If you’re worried about the safety or wellbeing of a young person, please tell us. You can speak to any section leader or our Group Scout Leader, or email [email protected].Placeholder email

You can also contact these directly:

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999.

Photographs

We love sharing what our young people get up to, but we only publish photographs with permission from a parent or carer. We don’t publish young people’s full names alongside their photos. If you’d like a photo removed, email us and we’ll take it down promptly.

Privacy notice

This website

This website doesn’t use cookies, analytics or tracking, and doesn’t load content from other websites. Our web host may keep standard server logs (such as IP addresses) for security purposes.

When you email us

We use your name, email address and anything you tell us only to reply to your enquiry. We don’t share it with anyone outside the group and we delete it when it’s no longer needed.

Members and volunteers

Like every Scout Group, we are responsible for the personal information we hold about our members, their families and our volunteers. We keep it securely, mainly on The Scouts’ membership system, and use it only to run Scouting safely. Read The Scouts’ data protection policy for more.

You can ask to see, correct or delete the information we hold about you or your child by emailing us. If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

About the group

Lisburn Cathedral Scout Group is a member of The Scouts and Scouts NI. We are run entirely by volunteers.

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