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People
Volunteers, employing staff, and safeguarding — the highest-risk area for most charities.
The moment a charity has people it acquires duties it did not have before: as an employer, as an organisation working with beneficiaries, and as a data controller holding information about both.
Safeguarding is the highest-consequence area in this guide. Several steps here carry criminal exposure. Each of them says so at the top and names the point at which you need someone qualified, rather than leaving you to find out afterwards.
Understand
Explainers for this part are not published yet.
Look up
Glossary
- Charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
- Grant
- Board of trustees
- Volunteer
- DBS check
- Regulated activity
- Safeguarding
- Worker
- Contract
- HMRC
- Beneficiaries
- Member
- Policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders
- Statutory inquiry
- Budget
Tools
- DBS level checker — Tool: planned
- Full cost recovery calculator — Tool: planned
- Is this a serious incident? — Tool: planned
Templates
- Contract outline — Template: planned
- DBS records log — Template: planned
- Safeguarding reporting log — Template: planned
- Volunteer agreement — Template: planned