DRAFT — NOT YET ADOPTED. This page describes a safeguarding position the trustees have not yet agreed. Publishing it as it stands would tell people what to expect of us without us being bound to it. Adopt a written policy at a trustees’ meeting, minute it, appoint a named lead, then remove this box.
If a child is at immediate risk
Ring 999.
If you are worried about a child but it is not an emergency, contact Wiltshire Council’s children’s social care on [WILTSHIRE MASH NUMBER], or [OUT OF HOURS NUMBER] outside office hours. You do not need our permission and you do not need to tell us first.
Our commitment
Everyone who comes into contact with this charity has a right to be safe. We are a small volunteer organisation that mostly handles donated goods rather than people, but we hold families’ details and our drivers sometimes reach their doorsteps, so safeguarding is our responsibility too.
What we do
- We take referrals only from professionals who already know the family, rather than working with families directly
- Volunteers who handle referral information or deliver to homes are [CONFIRM: DBS CHECKED AT WHICH LEVEL]
- Volunteers do not enter a family’s home
- We do not publish families’ names, details or photographs
- Concerns are passed to our safeguarding lead the same day, and to statutory services where the threshold is met
Our safeguarding lead
[NAMED TRUSTEE — ROLE — CONTACT EMAIL AND PHONE]
Deputy: [NAMED TRUSTEE]
[Trustees: the Charity Commission expects a named individual, not a generic address. Whoever is named needs to be contactable and to have had safeguarding training appropriate to the role.]
Raising a concern about us
If something about this charity or one of our volunteers worries you, tell our safeguarding lead. If the concern is about the lead, or you would rather not come to us, contact the Charity Commission at gov.uk/complain-about-charity, or Wiltshire children’s social care on the number above.
You will not get into trouble for raising something that turns out to be nothing.
Policy
[LINK TO THE ADOPTED SAFEGUARDING POLICY PDF]
Adopted [DATE]. Next review [DATE].