Safeguarding officers

Role	Name	Department	Contact email
Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO)	Lailia El Baradei	General Counsel, Governance and Compliance	le273@sussex.ac.uk
Senior Safeguarding Officer (SSO)	Jayne Aldridge	Student Experience	Jayne.Aldridge@sussex.ac.uk
Senior Safeguarding Officer	Colin Shipp	Human Resources	C.Shipp@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers (LSO)	Louise Spenceley Michele Balfe	Division of General Counsel, Governance and Compliance	L.Spenceley@sussex.ac.uk M.Balfe@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Josh Costa	Planning and Performance	jc2037@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Amanda Griffiths	Student Experience Division	A.Griffiths@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Sian Thomas Ian Mckee	Finance	Sian.Thomas@sussex.ac.uk I.Mckee@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Rose pringle	Human Resources	r.pringle@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Ben Sharp Wade Cason	ITS	Benoit.Sharp@sussex.ac.uk W.J.Cason@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Maria Smith Fiona Courage Nadia Pattenden	Library	m.a.smith@sussex.ac.uk f.p.courage@sussex.ac.uk N.Pattenden@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Lucy Cahalin	Communications, Marketing and Advancement	l.cahalin@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Daniel Hawkins	Widening Participation	Daniel.Hawkins@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Shelley Attfield	Housing Services and Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services	S.L.Attfield@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Luke Terrill Simon Tunley	Sussexsport	L.O.Terrill@sussex.ac.uk s.f.tunley@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Caroline Garrett	Research and Enterprises Services	C.A.Garrett@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Darren Beaney	Brighton and Sussex Medical School	D.Beaney@bsms.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Jo Tregenza Rachel Burr	School of Education and Social Work	J.Tregenza@sussex.ac.uk R.Burr@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Ali Taheri	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences	A.Taheri@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Kate Howland Ian Wakeman	School of Engineering and Informatics	K.L.Howland@sussex.ac.uk ianw@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Pippa Robinson Geert De Neve	School of Global Studies	pjr26@sussex.ac.uk g.r.de-neve@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	John Spencer	School of Life Sciences	J.Spencer@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officers	Pippa Robinson Jo Moran-Ellis	School of Law, Politics and Sociology	pjr26@sussex.ac.uk J.Moran-Ellis@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Liz James (staff) Melanie Green (Students) Ronan McKinney (Sussex Writes)	School of Media, Arts and Humanities	e.james@sussex.ac.uk m.j.green@sussex.ac.uk R.P.Mckinney@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Alison Pike Karen Long	School of Psychology	alisonp@sussex.ac.uk k.m.long@sussex.ac.uk
Local Safeguarding Officer	Claire Edwards	UoS Business School	Claire.Edwards@sussex.ac.uk

Emergency situation	Any person at IMMEDIATE RISK of harm to themselves or others -	On campus Call Security 01273 87(3333). They will contact the emergency services and guide them to the location of the incident. Off campus Call 999 for emergency response.
Institute of Development Studies Safeguarding Lead	Paula Karalus	p.karalus@ids.ac.uk
International Study Group	Helen Soud	hsoud@studygroup.com
Students’ Union	James Hann	james.h@sussexstudent.com
Sussex Estates and Facilities (SEF) is a partnership between the University of Sussex and Mitie, that provides total facilities management services to the University - everything from cleaning and maintenance, to groundskeeping and transport management.	SEF reports into the University's Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services team, as part of Professional Services at Sussex. Karen.Duddy@mitie.com is the safeguarding lead for Mitie.

The following details the responsibilities of the Designated Officers and has been extracted from the University Safeguarding Policy:

Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO)

The University has designated the General Counsel and Director of Governance & Compliance as the University’s Designated Safeguarding Officer. They have ultimate responsibility for the protection of children and adults at risk.

Senior Safeguarding Officer (SSO)

The University has designated the Director for the Student Experience Division and the Director of Human Resources as the University’s Designated Senior Safeguarding Officers (SS0) for students and staff respectively. They have responsibility for the daily operational issues relating to safeguarding children and adults at risk.

Local Safeguarding Officers (LSO)

The University has designated staff to be Local Safeguarding Officers throughout the University. These are designated officers to whom concerns must be reported or from whom advice is sought. Each School and Professional Services Division has a named Local Safeguarding Officer.

It is not the responsibility of the Local Safeguarding Officer to investigate a case. It is their role to receive the initial concern and establish whether it is a safeguarding matter. At that point the LSO will determine whether the issue can be directed to the student centre, whether there is an imminent risk of harm to anyone or whether it requires escalation to the Senior Safeguarding Officer, who will consider referral to the local authority as appropriate.