From supporting boards to ensuring your safeguarding arrangements are effective, robust and compliant
Empowering Boards and Board level safeguarding leads
Safeguarding and protecting your staff, volunteers, customers, students and beneficiaries is not a passive activity and doesn’t happen by chance. It's not easy to do, so it takes work to get it right.
As we're collaborating with our clients we are learning lessons all Boards can learn from and you can learn from it too. Just download our 7 questions you need to ask in your organisation guide (above) and give yourself a head start.
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It doesn't matter what you do or who you are, organisational Boards and strategic leaders across all sectors have statutory responsibilities for safeguarding if they work with, employ or provide services to children and/or adults at risk. And overlaid on to those responsibilities are the requirements of the Worker Protection Act 2023 as overseen by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to prevent harassment, bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace. Most high profile of all are the expectations the EHRC is putting on McDonald's franchisees.
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Keep Governance and Safeguarding is working with some of the most inspirational and compassionate organisations who are focused on continually improving their safeguarding practice, including with some of England's elite football clubs through our work with the Premier League.
Together, we're finding innovative ways to improve their safeguarding governance arrangements and ultimately help their leaders make their organisations safer. We work in partnership with organisations focussed on improving their safeguarding frameworks. We take a strategic perspective, ensuring your safeguarding work is effective and protects your people.
And we can help you to get a better hold of the safeguarding arrangements within your organisation whatever its size or shape.
Safeguarding Governance Training for Strategic Leads
Our three-hour training session develops governors’ understanding of holistic safeguarding and how it is different from a traditional view of child protection; governors’ statutory responsibilities for safeguarding; and an exploration of good governance structures. The course builds on relevant learning from national and regional reviews into organisational safeguarding failures including outcomes of the Charity Commission's investigation into Oxfam's operations in Haiti, the Whyte Review into British Gymnastics and the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse.
Audits and Evaluations
Into the effectiveness of your safeguarding arrangements.
Bring an independent eye to the assessment of your practice. We'll shape an audit around your needs and speak to your stakeholders to get an accurate view of your organisation.
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Building on experience supporting a range of statutory agencies, service providers and third sector organisations to assess their safeguarding processes and procedures, Keep Governance and Safeguarding provides one-to-one support services and impartial strategic analysis to ensure your organisation is best prepared to safeguard the children it works with.
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In recent years we have seen the start of company directors being found guilty for not protecting vulnerable people in their care at the same time as statutory guidance is putting new responsibilities on Boards. Whether you are a Governor in education, a Non-Executive Director of a company or a Charity Trustee, we are here to provide tailored support to you.
For whole Boards, we provide Safeguarding Governance and Leadership Training which covers key areas of organisational responsibility including:
The safeguarding landscape and organisational culture
Key roles and responsibilities and the prioritisation of safeguarding
Developing Board oversight to support effective safeguarding governance
For Board members with responsibility for safeguarding we are a trusted adviser, to walk with you through your safeguarding responsibilities and provide confidence that you are providing effective oversight of safeguarding. We provide this service to Board members at some of the Premier League's top Clubs, school governors and the Trustees of national charities and can provide it to you in your role.
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With extensive experience providing support for safeguarding leaders, including Heads of Safeguarding and Board members with responsibility for safeguarding at some of the Premier League's top Clubs or the Trustees of National Charities, we are well placed to help your leaders effectively discharge their responsibilities while ensuring your operational arrangements are robust.