Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

Key provisions

• Programmes open to participants under 18, such as school and college level aerospace awareness sessions, require parent or guardian consent before enrolment
• Volunteers and trainers with direct, unsupervised contact with minors are screened before placement, to the extent practical for the Trust's current scale
• A minor's photograph, video or identifying detail is never published without specific, documented parent or guardian consent, separate from general programme consent
• Any disclosure or suspicion of harm to a minor is reported immediately to the Program Manager and, where legally required, to the appropriate authority, without waiting for internal review to conclude
• Beneficiary records for minors are restricted from public access regardless of general transparency commitments elsewhere on this site

Escalation

A child safety concern is escalated immediately to the Program Manager and the Managing Trustee; this is the one policy area where escalation should never wait for the standard grievance queue.