Safeguarding Statement
Frontline Fire Training Ltd
Version 2.0
Last updated: 11 August 2026
1. Purpose
Frontline Fire Training Ltd aims to provide professional training without causing or increasing risk to children, young people or adults at risk who may be present at a client site.
2. Business and delivery model
Frontline is operated by Guy Cambouropoulos as sole director and trainer. Standard courses are workplace training arranged by an organisational client and should ordinarily be delivered with the client’s employees or representatives present.
Frontline does not provide childcare, personal care, health care, regulated education, one-to-one support or unsupervised activities for children or adults at risk. A client must disclose before booking if the proposed arrangements differ from this standard model.
3. Client responsibilities
The client retains responsibility for:
• its safeguarding policy and designated safeguarding contacts;
• deciding who may attend or enter the training area;
• supervision, staffing ratios, consent and visitor controls;
• providing relevant site rules and reporting routes;
• preventing unnecessary one-to-one or unsupervised contact; and
• responding to concerns about people for whom it has safeguarding responsibility.
4. Professional conduct
The trainer will:
• follow the client’s reasonable safeguarding and visitor procedures;
• maintain appropriate professional boundaries;
• avoid unnecessary physical contact and private communication with children or adults at risk;
• avoid photographing or recording participants without documented client authority and an appropriate lawful basis;
• not seek unnecessary personal, medical or safeguarding information; and
• report relevant concerns rather than attempting to investigate them.
5. DBS position
The trainer currently holds an Enhanced DBS certificate and is not subscribed to the DBS Update Service. The separate DBS Statement explains the limits of that certificate. Frontline will not claim barred-list status, Update Service status or suitability for a particular regulated activity unless supported by current evidence.
6. Responding to a concern
If someone is in immediate danger, call 999 and follow the site emergency procedure.
A concern arising during delivery should normally be reported promptly to the client’s designated safeguarding lead or senior responsible person and to Guy Cambouropoulos where Frontline is involved. The concern should be recorded factually using the person’s own words where possible. Confidentiality must not be promised.
Frontline will not investigate an allegation, question witnesses extensively or contact an alleged perpetrator. The client or appropriate statutory authority should determine the referral route.
7. Allegations about the trainer
An allegation concerning Guy Cambouropoulos should be reported directly to the client’s safeguarding lead or senior manager. Where the allegation concerns work with children, the client should obtain advice from the Local Authority Designated Officer for the authority responsible for that setting. The relevant authority depends on the location and circumstances, so one fixed regional contact is not used in this statement.
8. Records and information sharing
Only necessary factual information will be recorded and shared on a need-to-know basis. Records will be handled under the Privacy Notice. Information may be shared without consent where necessary to protect a person or comply with law.
9. Booking limits
Frontline may decline, postpone or change delivery where safeguarding information, supervision or site controls are inadequate, or where the work would fall outside Frontline’s competence, DBS evidence, insurance or normal service scope.
10. Review
Review annually and whenever personnel, DBS status, service scope or safeguarding guidance materially changes.
Approved by: Guy Cambouropoulos, Director
Date: 11 August 2026