Safeguarding is vital for any organisation. Protecting vulnerable adults and children is both an ethical necessity as well a statutory requirement.
It is therefore crucial to ensure that safeguarding is at the core of a charity's training and induction, as well as embedded within procedures that put staff and volunteers in positions where they may meet children and vulnerable adults.
Here are a few links to complement what our guests said on safeguarding:
1. Real Safeguarding Stories:
2. Writing a Safeguarding policy:
3. Institute of Fundraising, Safeguarding and Whistleblowing:
4. 'Protecting children is everybody's business', Bob Lohne