Guides for people in certain roles
The higher the safeguarding risks in your organisation, the more people in different roles may need specialist guidance to help them.
- Safeguarding for trustees
- The designated safeguarding lead's handbook
- Safeguarding responsibilities for chief executives
- Safeguarding for volunteer managers
- Safeguarding as a director of operations
- Safeguarding for HR managers
- Safeguarding for communication and marketing managers
- Safeguarding for fundraising managers
Guides for organisations carrying out specific activities
- A safeguarding approach to grant making
- Supporting others to do safeguarding well. A guide for local infrastructure organisations, it can be used by anyone working in capacity building and supporting groups and organisations.
Guides for specific aspects of safeguarding
- Getting started with criminal records checks. Use this to plan for taking Disclosure and Barring Service checks, and understand how they fit within your wider safeguarding procedures.
- Responding to safeguarding concerns. This set of pages are part of the designated safeguarding lead's handbook and provide support to anyone looking to review or develop reporting procedures.
- Whistleblowing – encouraging people to speak out. Understand whistleblowing in connection with safeguarding. Find advice to create guides for people thinking about whistleblowing to use.
- Planning your training. A guide to commissioning, designing or reviewing safeguarding training.