The Practitioner Safeguarding Addendum

Scope

This addendum covers all ENKNEAUXN contexts: work with named artists and creative workers, project and run support, rosters and caseloads, sets, events, productions and activations, programmes, workshops and reflective spaces, and ENKNEAUXN projects such as en HEARD?. It applies to the practitioner, and to anyone delivering work under an ENKNEAUXN booking.

Definitions

• Duty of care: the responsibility to take reasonable steps to keep the people connected to a piece of work safe from foreseeable harm.
• Safeguarding: protecting people’s health, wellbeing and rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
• Adult at risk: an adult who has needs for care and support and is experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect and unable to protect themselves because of those needs.
• DSL: designated safeguarding lead, the named accountable person within an agreed safeguarding plan.
• Remit and plan: the specific support and responsibility agreed in writing before delivery. Safeguarding cover operates within them.

Practitioner basis

ENKNEAUXN practitioner services are delivered by a qualified practitioner and adult safeguarding support specialist, with front and first line experience across complex support, and training including contextual safeguarding, trauma-informed safer spaces, mental health first aid and suicide first aid.

How duty of care operates in each context

One named artist or creative worker. The duty is to the named person: their welfare, access needs, boundaries, safety, experience and emotional load, within the agreed date and remit. Being booked for one named person does not automatically extend responsibility to the wider set or event.

A project or run. The duty follows the agreed plan across the period: check-ins, in-person and remote support, debriefs, welfare planning, signposting and handovers, shaped to the project.

A roster or caseload. Each person held has their own person-centred plan setting their sessions, check-ins, contact and show-ups. Welfare context is held over time, with a clear route for the team when something moves.

A set, event or production. The duty is to the environment: crew, models and extras, participants, attendees, guests, volunteers and staff, within agreed boundaries. Where DSL cover is booked, it operates within an agreed safeguarding plan: risk review beforehand, named escalation routes, decision authority on the day, incident logging, and post-event handover.

Consent and agency

Support is consent-led and person-centred. People can pause, stop or withdraw from support at any time, and can set what is shared, with whom, and how. Where consent limits what can be shared, it is respected within the agreed remit,

Reasonable adjustments are offered for participation and for how support is delivered, agreed within the plan and the pre-date intake.

Boundaries

This work is not therapy, clinical care, legal advice or emergency crisis support. 1-1 support sits only within an agreed remit. Where a need sits beyond the remit, the response is honest signposting and referral, not improvised practice.

Recognising and responding to concerns

Concerns may be seen, heard directly, or disclosed. The response is consistent:

• Listen without judgement, without leading questions, and without promising secrecy that cannot be kept
• Make the person safe in the moment, within agreed boundaries
• Record factually, same day: what was seen or said, not speculation
• Escalate through the routes agreed in the plan; ENKNEAUXN does not investigate
• Where a concern meets the statutory threshold, report to the relevant statutory authorities

Escalation and reporting

Every booking with safeguarding responsibility names its escalation routes before delivery: who is told, in what order, and when statutory routes are used. Incidents are logged same day. Post-date and post-event reports are provided to the commissioning team where agreed, using roles rather than names in shared records.

Safer working practice

• Professional boundaries are held on and off the date: no dual relationships that compromise the work
• The practitioner does not drink or use substances while holding responsibility
• Contact between bookings follows the agreed plan, not open-ended availability
• Lone working and late-night settings are risk assessed as part of scoping
• Where work involves under-18s or adults at risk, the setting’s own safeguarding requirements are met before delivery

Records and confidentiality

Brief records are kept for welfare continuity and accountability: intake information, session and debrief notes, and incident logs. They are stored securely, use roles rather than names where shared, and are retained and deleted in line with the Privacy Policy. Confidentiality is held within the agreed remit, and is only ever set aside where safeguarding law requires it.

Concerns about ENKNEAUXN

If you have a concern about the conduct of ENKNEAUXN or the practitioner, raise it through the contact page. Concerns are taken seriously, responded to, and recorded. Related commitments sit in the Code of Conduct and wider policies.

Review

This addendum is reviewed annually, after any incident, and whenever the shape of ENKNEAUXN services changes.