Safeguarding
Child safeguarding and protection
Every child is precious to God and to us. This is how we keep children safe, and what to do if you are worried.
Our commitment
Funtime with Jesus Everyday is committed to providing a safe, respectful and welcoming environment for every child who participates in our programmes or uses our platform.
The safety, dignity and wellbeing of children are central to everything we do. We do not tolerate abuse, exploitation, bullying, harassment, inappropriate communication or any conduct that places a child at risk.
Safeguarding Lead
- Child Safeguarding Lead
- Olukunbi Grace
- funtimewithjesuseveryday@gmail.com
- Telephone
- +234 807 112 4452
- Deputy Safeguarding Lead
- Funto Onuoha, funto.onuoha@gmail.com
The Safeguarding Lead is responsible for receiving concerns, coordinating the initial response, maintaining confidential safeguarding records and escalating concerns to the appropriate authorities where necessary.
Reporting a concern
Parents, guardians, children, staff, volunteers and members of the public can report a safeguarding concern through our designated safeguarding contact.
When reporting a concern, please provide:
- A brief description of what happened.
- When and where it happened, if known.
- Whether a child may be in immediate danger.
- Any relevant information that may help us respond.
You do not need to investigate or prove a concern before reporting it.
Our response times
- Immediate danger: Contact the appropriate emergency or child-protection authorities immediately. Do not wait for a response from our team.
- Urgent safeguarding concerns: We aim to acknowledge reports received during monitored hours on the same day and prioritise an immediate safety assessment.
- Other safeguarding concerns: We aim to acknowledge reports within one working day and provide an update on the next steps as soon as reasonably possible.
Our safeguarding contact is monitored during 12 noon to 4pm, Monday to Friday (Nigeria time, WAT). It is not a 24-hour emergency service.
Escalation procedure
Where a concern is received, we will:
- Record the information securely and restrict access to authorised personnel.
- Assess whether a child may be at immediate risk.
- Take appropriate steps to protect the child within our responsibility.
- Refer or report the concern to the relevant child-protection or law-enforcement authority where required or appropriate.
- Contact the child’s parent or guardian where safe and appropriate to do so. This may be delayed where informing them could increase risk to the child or interfere with an official response.
- Maintain a confidential record of actions taken and follow-up.
We will not promise absolute confidentiality where sharing information is necessary to protect a child or meet a legal obligation.
Our safeguarding standards
We expect our staff, volunteers, teachers and programme facilitators to:
- Treat every child with dignity and respect.
- Maintain appropriate adult-child boundaries.
- Use approved communication channels.
- Avoid private, unmonitored communication with children.
- Obtain appropriate parental consent for participation and media use.
- Report safeguarding concerns promptly.
- Follow our safeguarding procedures and training requirements.
Children’s safety always comes before programme participation, publicity or organizational reputation.
How our website keeps children safe
- Parents and guardians hold the accounts and manage their children's profiles. Children don't have their own accounts.
- There is no public list of children, and we never show children's full names, contact details or other identifying information publicly.
- There are no open comments, no direct messages and no private chats between children.
- Session recordings need consent, are checked by our team before sharing, and are only shared with families registered for that programme.
- Online reports go to a private inbox that only our senior team can open, and every action taken is recorded.