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Ten things you might not have thought about with regards to safeguarding
- Safeguarding is not just about making sure your service users are safe… what about your volunteers and your staff?
- Just because you receive a DBS check back with nothing recorded for someone doesn’t mean they are safe, it only means that nothing has been recorded against their identity
- Meeting someone face-to-face can often give you much more of an insight into a person than any amount of paperwork
- A trial volunteering period can help in getting to know someone before making the judgement that someone is safe to volunteer alone
- Sometimes volunteers and even staff can be as vulnerable as service users
- Regularly checking in and refreshing around boundaries is really important
- There are lone worker systems in place, e.g. @Guardian24uk which can help to keep your volunteers and staff safe
- Give volunteers the knowledge, skills and confidence to assess a situation and remove themselves from it if uncomfortable
- Ongoing supervision is really important in helping to identify safeguarding issues and gaps in systems
- Safeguarding isn’t always about the obvious things
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