Prompt: draft a safeguarding policy outline

Safeguarding is a legal and moral priority for any charity working with people. This prompt drafts a starter safeguarding policy outline tailored to your work — but safeguarding is too important to leave to AI. A competent person must review and complete the policy, and trustees must adopt and own it.

What to paste in

Tell the AI what you do and who you work with, whether you have a designated safeguarding lead, and your existing procedures. It drafts an outline and flags every place that needs a real name, local contact or legal check.

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What to check afterwards

Have someone with safeguarding knowledge review the outline and trustees adopt it — an AI draft is never a finished policy. Check the legal duties for your specific work, add your real safeguarding lead and the correct statutory contacts, and reflect serious incident reporting to the Commission.

Serious safeguarding incidents can be reportable to the Charity Commission as serious incidents, and the duty rests with trustees (Source: gov.uk / Charity Commission, accessed 9 July 2026; verified 11 Jul 2026).

Worked example

The illustrative example is explicitly an outline, with [ADD/CHECK] flags on every contact and duty that a competent person must complete before adoption.

CharityIQ can draft a safeguarding outline grounded in your activities, but always for a competent person and your trustees to complete and own.