A set of guides presented as collections of web pages each focused on different aspects of safeguarding.
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.
