1. For charities and voluntary organisations
Safeguarding
For charities and voluntary organisations

2. Pothecary Witham Weld Solicitors
Michele Price
Solicitor
Trustee

3. SAFEGUARDING What is safeguarding?
What are your legal or regulatory requirements?
What do you need to do to comply with those requirements?
What do you do when things so wrong?

4. What is Safeguarding?
Safeguarding is what you do to protect people who come into contact with your organisation from abuse or mistreatment of any kind
Your beneficiaries or service users
Your staff
Your volunteers

5. What is Safeguarding? Examples of safeguarding issues
Sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation
Negligent treatment
Physical or emotional abuse
Commercial exploitation
Terrorism or extremism
Bullying
Health and safety
Abuse of a position

6. Legal and Regulatory Requirements
Legal requirements for schools, care facilities and hospitals
Regulatory compliance – possibly with one or more regulator
Governance and best practice
Inspections

7. How do you Comply? Recognise that it applies to your organisation
Put the appropriate polices and procedures in place and make them public
Risk register and managing risk
Review, update and manage those polices and procedures
Training, education, lessons learned, refreshers
Create an environment where concerns can be raised
Handling allegations and making reports

8. How do you Comply? Carry out background checks
DBS – standard, enhanced or basic
Check references and question missing parts of CV
Check eligibility to work in UK
Check not disqualified from acting as a trustee or senior member of staff
Obtain health checks
Check proscribed organisations

9. How do you Comply? Carry out background checks
DBS – standard, enhanced or basic
Check references and question missing parts of CV
Check eligibility to work in UK
Check not disqualified from acting as a trustee or senior member of staff
Obtain health checks
Check proscribed organisations

10. What Happens when things go wrong?
How do issues come to light
Is there a culture of being open and responsive
Consider what immediate action is needed such as police or medical intervention
Look at your internal procedures – did they work could they have been better?
Risk register – an event has happened how does that effect or risk regime
Call in the regulators
Make a serious incident report to the Charity Commission

11. What Happens when things go wrong?
How do you deal with the person/s affected
Your messaging and any communications to stakeholders
Spokespersons if needed
How to handle an investigation
How to minimise or prevent it happening again

12. Here to help local organisations
Pothecary Witham Weld
Solicitors
70 St George’s Square
London
SW1V 3RD