The Board must ensure that there is a clear oversight over the decisions of management with regards to safeguarding.
To do so, the Board needs to be equipped with sufficient information to ask appropriate yet challenging questions that provide the crucial checks and balances of clear oversight and good governance.
Together with senior management, the Chair of the Board should ensure that:
Activity 4.4 Donor requirements Many of the points above may be donor requirements, particularly for those who have aligned safeguarding language in funding agreements adopted by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Identify some of the safeguarding requirements from your organisational donors, which the Board must take notice of, and note them in your learning journal – is the Board aware and of the requirements and actively ensuring they are met? |