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The course will introduce the key questions that groups or organisations should reflect on as they think about re-starting their volunteer programmes. The course will help you prepare your volunteers, groups or organisations and colleagues to return to supporting volunteer involvement. However, the current situation and how individuals and group or organisations respond to COVID-19 allows us to start to explore the broader topic of “Keeping Volunteers Safe”.

The course has been developed with input from volunteers, volunteer-involving groups and groups or organisations, volunteer practitioners and trainers, specifically the Volunteer Scotland Action Learning Group. The COVID-19 situation is very fluid, and therefore, this course will be organic, it is not a complete or finished course, and we will develop its content over the next few months as the current situation changes. (Please remember to adapt this information into your local context and seek out the relevant government advice for your locality of operations).