Safeguarding Statement
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. As a community, we are committed to co-producing policies and processes that are effective and rooted in trauma-informed and trauma-responsive practice. This commitment reflects our core values and ensures that we practice what we preach. It’s crucial for every member of our community to understand the importance of prioritising safety during Co-Production Collective sessions. Additionally, knowing how we as a community (and the Co-Production Collective staff team) respond to risks or actual harm (whether occurring during our sessions or as a result of them) is essential.
The statement sets out our approach to safeguarding and the procedures we need to follow to ensure that everyone feels safe when involved in our work. This includes governance and oversight procedures, supported by a structured, community led process that ensures actions are followed through and that learning is continually fed back into improving our practice.
If you would like to report a safeguarding concern, please complete our Safeguarding Report Form and download it and send it to our Designated Safeguarding Lead Niccola Hutchinson-Pascal via email on n.pascal@ucl.ac.uk or by phone on 07741 671 200. Should she be unavailable or for some reason be inappropriate, the alternative reporting person is June Hedges, who can be contacted by email or phone (j.hedges@ucl.ac.uk, 020 7679 0106)
Before embarking on any co-production project with Co-Production Collective, we ask that you read the statement and agree to abide by it.
As well as the PDF and Word Document versions below we have various versions of the policy available for download from this Google Drive folder.
- Screen reader-friendly (Word and PDF)
- Large font version (Word)
- Audio version (MP3)
- Interactive summary (Braille, EPUB, DAISY, MOBI)
If you need a different format or a specific version of Braille not listed, please contact us at coproduction@ucl.ac.uk and we’ll be happy to provide.