Keeping people safe on our units.

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead

Nina Karwalska, a director of Futures in Film CIC, is our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL). She makes sure concerns are acted on, records are kept securely, and referrals go to the right authority.

[email protected]

Who our work is for

Our own courses, placements and production simulations are for adults aged 18 and over.

We also work with young people under 18. When we do, the work runs through a school, college or youth programme, such as London Screen Academy, or at the Pinewood Futures Festival, which is Pinewood Studios' own event. In every case:

• the session is agreed in writing with the host institution beforehand;
• the host's staff stay with the young people throughout;
• the host's safeguarding procedures apply, and we follow them alongside ours;
• our people who work with young people are DBS-checked and trained in safeguarding;
• we have no one-to-one, private messaging or social media contact with under-18s;
• we photograph or film young people only with the host's agreement and the right consents, and we never publish their names or personal details.

We also look out for adults who may be at risk: on placements, on long shoot days and in any accommodation we arrange.

How to raise a concern

• If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.
• Contact our DSL. [email protected]
• Use our report a concern form, with or without your name.
• If it is about a young person on a school or college programme, you can also tell that school's or college's own safeguarding lead.
• You do not need proof, and you do not have to come to us first. You can contact the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000, your local council's children's or adult services, or the police.
• If the concern is about our DSL or one of our directors, contact another director: email [email protected] and name the director you want it to reach. Or go straight to the NSPCC or your local council.

What happens next

We record the concern on the day it arrives and tell you who is looking at it. Where a child or adult may be at risk of harm, we refer it to the local authority or the police. We do not investigate those cases ourselves. An allegation against anyone working with children is referred to the local authority designated officer (LADO).

Our policy

Read our Safeguarding Policy. The board owns it and reviews it every year, and after any serious incident. You can ask us for a copy at any time. How we are governed.