Safeguarding Policy For Medium Charity (No child contact)

The Charity Commission has stated that every charity must have a safeguarding policy and procedure, and that those documents have to be adequate and appropriate for the charity's particular circumstances. The amount of detail needed will depend on your charity’s activities and the level of risk entailed in those activities. You will need to carry out a risk assessment and design a policy containing measures proportionate to the risks.

This Safeguarding Policy For Medium Charity (No child contact) will be a useful tool to help your charity draft a safeguarding policy if it:

• is medium sized (i.e. it has an annual income between £100,000 and £1 million)
• has volunteers and paid staff
• operates in only one or a few locations 
• has no contact with children.

It is recommended that you only use this template as a starting point to draft a policy as long as all of these apply. 

If your charity does have any contact with children and/or if it is a small charity, see instead the appropriate accompanying template. 

Depending on the particular circumstances of your charity, you might be able to use or adapt some of the provisions of this template with little change whereas other provisions might only be suitable as a checklist of points to be covered by your policy. 

However, no template safeguarding policy can be a “one size fits all” document and you might need to make substantial changes to this template, in particular if any of the factors (a) to (h) listed here apply.

We recommend that in all cases, once you have prepared your draft policy, and before you finalise it, you obtain legal advice as to whether it is adequate for your purposes. In any event, if your charity is large or complex, it would best be served by seeking specialist advice rather than attempting to use this or any of the accompanying templates.

You might need to annex to your policy a detailed document of procedures to be followed to implement points covered by the policy itself. 

Optional phrases / clauses are enclosed in square brackets. These should be read carefully and selected so as to be compatible with one another. Unused options should be removed from the document.

This Safeguarding Policy For A Medium Charity (No child contact) is in open format. Either enter the requisite details in the highlighted fields or adjust the wording to suit your purposes.

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