Our written statement under the Children First Act 2015, setting out how we keep students safe from harm while they are with us. Last reviewed: 3 September 2026.
This Child Safeguarding Statement is made by Reviseonline Limited (registered in Ireland, company no. 418387), trading as Revise.ie ("Revise", "we", "us"). We provide supervised evening study, Maths grinds, Saturday sessions, and Christmas and Easter revision courses for Junior and Leaving Certificate students in Kilkenny (Ormonde Hotel) and Athlone (TUS Athlone). Grinds are delivered either in person at our Kilkenny centre or live online, and students may move between the two from week to week. Most of the students who avail of our services are under 18.
Because part of what we do reaches a child in their own home rather than in a supervised room, the risks of the two are assessed separately below.
This statement has been developed in line with the Children First Act 2015, Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children, the Addendum to Children First (2019) dealing with online safety, and Tusla's Child Safeguarding: A Guide for Policy, Procedure and Practice.
Revise is committed to safeguarding the children who use our service. Every child is treated with respect and dignity, and we will, as far as is practicable, ensure they are safe from harm while availing of our service. We recognise that child safeguarding is a shared responsibility, and we will co-operate fully with Tusla, An Garda Síochána and other agencies in the interests of children.
"Harm", as defined in the Children First Act 2015, means assault, ill-treatment or neglect of a child, or sexual abuse of a child, whether caused by a single act, omission or circumstance, or a series or combination of these, in a manner that seriously affects or is likely to seriously affect the child's health, development or welfare.
We have carried out a written assessment of any potential for harm to a child while availing of our service. The areas of risk we identified, and the procedures we have in place to manage each, are set out below.
Unsupervised or one-to-one contact between an adult and a child.
All study, grind and course sessions are supervised and take place in open, visible rooms. There is always at least one supervisor present in each room. No member of staff works alone, one-to-one, with a child behind a closed door.
Arrivals, collection and movement around the venue.
Attendance is recorded at the door and parents are kept informed. Students do not leave the venue during a session without prior arrangement. Students are responsible for their own travel to and from the centre, and Revise is not responsible for students outside scheduled programme times.
Recruiting or retaining an unsuitable person.
Anyone who works with children at Revise is Garda vetted through the National Vetting Bureau before they begin, and references are checked as part of a safe recruitment and selection process.
Failure to recognise or report harm.
Staff are given child-safeguarding information so they can recognise possible signs of harm, and there is a clear route for raising a concern with our Relevant Person, who reports to Tusla where required.
Harm or bullying between students.
Our house rules require silent, individual work and respectful behaviour. Sessions are supervised throughout, and students who repeatedly disrupt or harm others are removed. Any concern raised by or about a student is taken seriously and acted on.
Teaching that reaches a child in their own home.
A live online grind reaches a child where no supervisor can see them, so it is run differently from a room. Teaching is delivered to a whole class group, never one to one. It is delivered by voice and screen, and a student is never required to appear on camera — their camera and microphone stay under their own control throughout. Teachers join from a neutral, appropriate setting using Revise and Mathslive accounts, never a personal account or a personal meeting room. There is no private one-to-one video or voice call between a member of staff and a student at any time. Because nobody sees the child, staff are told that in an online setting the signals of harm are what a student writes and how they behave in class rather than how they look, and that a concern is reported on that basis.
Recorded classes.
Recordings capture the teacher and the teaching material only. They are released solely to the enrolled students of that class group through their own private access, are never published publicly, and are never downloaded, kept or shared by an individual teacher.
The written message channel — please read this if you book a grind or a bundle.
Evening study and Saturday study on their own involve no messaging of any kind between staff and students. But if you book a Maths grind or a study-and-grinds bundle, your child receives free access to our Mathslive notes platform, and that platform includes a written channel through which your child can ask their teacher a question about their own work. We would rather say that plainly than have you discover it afterwards.
The channel exists so that a quieter student can ask for help, and so that no personal phone numbers or email addresses are ever exchanged between a teacher and a child. Every message is confined to schoolwork, is attributed to a named sender, is timestamped, and cannot be deleted or edited by either the student or the teacher. The channel sits entirely inside the platform and is reviewed by our Relevant Person. Anything a student writes that is not about schoolwork is escalated rather than answered there. You will be told in writing that the channel exists before your child first uses it, and you may ask for a copy of your child's messages at any time. If you would prefer your child did not have the channel, contact us and we will arrange that. Full detail is in the Mathslive Child Safeguarding Statement.
Photography and images.
Images of students are only taken and used with consent. We do not identify individual students without the consent of a parent or guardian.
In addition to the procedures listed in the risk assessment above, the following procedures support our commitment to safeguard children while they avail of our service:
The Relevant Person — the first point of contact in respect of this Child Safeguarding Statement — is Carl Lynch. He can be contacted at info@revise.ie or on 086 065 9817.
The Deputy Relevant Person — who acts as the point of contact when the Relevant Person is unavailable — is Ronan Lynch. He can be contacted at info@revise.ie or on 086 065 9817.
Every teacher who teaches our students, including Carl Lynch, is registered with the Teaching Council and is therefore a mandated person under Schedule 2 of the Children First Act 2015. Each mandated person is personally obliged to report concerns of harm above the defined threshold to Tusla, and to assist Tusla, if requested, in assessing such a concern. We maintain a written list of the mandated persons in our service.
Members of staff who are not mandated persons, such as supervisors, are required to report any concern about a child to the Relevant Person, who reports it to Tusla where the threshold is met. Any member of staff may also report a concern directly to Tusla at any time.
Where a concern relates to the Relevant Person, the Deputy Relevant Person, the provider, or anyone connected to them, it should be reported directly to Tusla rather than through the contacts above. If a child is in immediate danger, contact An Garda Síochána without delay.
If you have a concern about the safety or welfare of a child availing of our service, please contact our Relevant Person at the details above. Concerns that reach the threshold for reporting will be reported to Tusla. If a child is in immediate danger, contact An Garda Síochána without delay. You can also report a concern directly to Tusla — see tusla.ie.
This statement is provided to all staff. It is displayed in a prominent place at our centres and is available to parents and guardians, to Tusla and to members of the public on request. It will be reviewed at least once every 24 months, or sooner if there is a material change to our service or to relevant guidance.
For and on behalf of Reviseonline Limited (the provider):
Signed: Carl Lynch
Date adopted: 3 September 2026
Next review due: 3 September 2028