Other sections

• Accountability

  This section helps leaders understand the impact of their own power over others, and how they can proactively encourage feedback and learning (at least 4 hours).

  Behaviours covered:

  1. Leaders understand the impact of their own power in relation to others, particularly those from at-risk or marginalised groups and proactively seek to make themselves accountable to others.
  2. Leaders are proactively engaged in learning from cases of sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) or other types of harm; keeping safeguarding at the forefront of the organisation.
  3. Leaders ensure the organisation is transparent about processes and decision-making.
  4. Leaders ensure that their organisation actively encourages and receives feedback and reports of safeguarding issues, including from at-risk or marginalised groups and staff at all levels of the organisation. Routinely reflect on patterns, trends and how to improve reporting and response mechanisms.
  5. Leaders proactively influence their peers to achieve a higher standard of safeguarding practice through challenge and support, and seek the same feedback for themselves.

  Get startedShow more

• Policies and processes

  This section helps leaders understand how to ensure that their organisation’s policies function to prevent and respond to safeguarding-related issues (around 3 hours).

  Behaviours covered:

  1. Leaders display courage in ensuring that their organisation’s policies function to prevent and respond to safeguarding -related issues.
  2. Leaders take responsibility for ensuring the organisation’s activities, including safeguarding processes, are gender-sensitive, inclusive and explicitly consider power imbalances.

  Get startedShow more

• Survivor-centred approach

  This section focuses on how leaders can ensure a survivor-centred approach (around 3 hours).

  Behaviours covered:

  1. Leaders prioritise survivors’ best interests over those of the organisation.
  2. Leaders ensure that processes to report safeguarding incidents or concerns, including referral pathways (e.g. to support services), are informed by victim and survivor feedback and that their wellbeing is prioritised.
  3. Leaders allocate financial and other resources to the implementation of robust investigations and victim and survivor care.

  Get startedShow more

• Awareness-raising

  This section focuses on the role of leaders in raising awareness of safeguarding within their organisation (around 3 hours).

  Behaviours covered:

  1. Leaders model commitment to learning and development around safeguarding and participate in safeguarding training.
  2. Leaders regularly share insights around safeguarding that bring the issues to life in a meaningful way for staff.
  3. Leaders ensure that safeguarding is routinely on the agenda for leadership and team meetings.

  Get startedShow more

• Safer recruitment and HR processes

  This section focuses on how leaders can actively champion and model safer recruitment practices (around 3 hours).

  Behaviours covered:

  1. Leaders actively champion and model safer recruitment processes.
  2. Leaders support prioritising safer recruitment processes over other organisational priorities such as staffing shortages.
  3. Leaders demonstrate that safeguarding good practice extends to all employment processes, including the conduct of disciplinary processes etc.

  Get startedShow more