Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme
This course is about the essential things you need to consider to ensure a positive experience for individuals returning to engage in volunteering following suspension of programmes in response to Covid-19. The overall aim is to help you prepare your volunteers, organisation and colleagues to return to supporting volunteer involvement in your work. It was developed with input from volunteers, volunteer-involving groups and organisations, volunteer practitioners and trainers. This input has given us the volunteers’ perspective and the volunteers’ ‘voice’ that we hope you will find helpful throughout the course.
6. Further Resources and Acknowledgements
6.3. Further Resources
You may find some of the following resources useful.
- Visit the Volunteer Scotland website
- Plan Do Study Act - (PDSA) continuous improvement methodology
- Healthier Scotland - Clear Your Head
- Scottish Autism - Lone Working Risk Assessment Checklist
- Health & Safety Executive - COVID-19 page
- Healthy Working Lives - COVID-19 Staff Engagement.docx
- Care Inspectorate – COVID-19 Quality Indicators
- Scottish Government – Mental Health Support
- UK Government - Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Volunteer Scotland - Volunteering Health & Wellbeing
Here are some examples of forms colleagues in the sector are using during the COVID-19 period
Action on Hearing Loss - Online Befriending
CHSS - Volunteer Role Retail Risk Assessment
Paths for All Buddy Walk Guidance
Voluntary Action Lochaber - COVID-19 Disclaimer