Safeguarding Policy

Risk

Action to reduce or eliminate risk

Online grooming or other sexual exploitation

All pages are password protected by default. This means they can only be accessed by a user with the URL and password and do not appear in search engines.  

Parents need to approve any data that a child inputs before their fundraising page goes live. Similarly, each time a child updates their page, parental consent is sought.

Children are only asked for the minimum data required to set up a fundraising page (their name and any information they wish to share about what they are doing and why).

Social anxiety, self-esteem issues, bullying or peer pressure (children feeling pressured to compete for fundraising targets and badges)

All pages are password protected by default. This means they can only be accessed by a user with the URL and password and will not appear in search engines. This means that children cannot publicly access each other’s pages and compete for fundraising targets. Similarly, trophy cases are private and cannot publicly be viewed.

Fundraisers (and their parents) can turn off comments from fundraising pages to remove risk of cyber bullying.

Access to harmful or inappropriate content (children clicking on an external link that we have provided as a further educational resource on the educational platform and then finding themselves browsing the internet more generally)

The educational content featured on SuperKind has been curated by expert editors and educators to ensure that it is child appropriate.

As to external resources, there is a pop-up to inform children that they are being taken to an external link and recommend that they consult with an adult (parent or teacher) before doing so.

Encouraging excessive risk-taking or unhealthy behaviour (encouraging children to take action such as going on a protest)

The toolkits for taking action always encourage children to seek advice/approval from their parents before taking actions that might in any way pose risk.

Economic exploitation or unfair commercial pressure

We recognise that some children and families may not be in a financial position where they have money to spare for fundraising activities. There are so many different ways to make a meaningful impact in the world and at SuperKind we believe that no type of action is more important than another. This is why we encourage all sorts of action, be that writing a letter to a person in a position of power, making a speech in assembly, talking to friends and family about an important problem or fundraising.