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In this final unit of the course, we focused on how you can implement your knowledge and skills to strengthen your organisation’s safeguarding culture.

The content provided opportunities for you to reflect on your knowledge and skills and how you might also use them to strengthen a safeguarding culture within the international aid sector. There is a lot of guidance on safeguarding in the international aid sector, and a mandate for organisations to designate Safeguarding Leads at senior leadership and board levels.

It is also important that every member of an organisation understands the safeguarding policy and relevant legislation and is effectively and regularly trained in safeguarding throughout their career. Safeguarding training should occur at every level and for every role.

We also applied our learning to a case study related to strengthening a safeguarding culture. The case study and the video with WaterAid further highlighted the importance of implementing knowledge and skills at an individual and organisational level to embed and strengthen a safeguarding culture.

Learning journal Before you finish Unit 6, reflect on your own learning so far. Consider the following questions and respond to them in your learning journal: What was the most significant thing you learnt in this unit? How would you apply your learning to the work that you do?

Post-course survey

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Further reading

Facilitator’s Guide to Organisational Values and Culture RSH

References

Bond (2021) Understanding effective safeguarding culture: A toolkit to help organisations understand the behaviours associated with safeguarding culture, Online. Available at Bond (Accessed 20 September 2021).

Bond (2019) 20 core elements: a toolkit to strengthen safeguarding report-handling, Online. Available at Bond (PDF) (Accessed 20 September 2021).

Perkins, K. M. (2019) Leadership and Purpose: How to create a sustainable culture, London, Routledge.

Wonacott, J. and Carmi, E. (2016) Serious Case Review: Southbank International School, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster LSCB, Online. Available at LSCB (PDF) (Accessed 20 September 2021).

Williams, A. (2018) A respectful organisational culture is crucial to safeguarding, Online. Available at Bond (Accessed 20 September 2021).

Woodhouse, J. (2019) ‘Leading a safeguarding culture’, Safeguarding Network, Online. Available at Safeguarding Network (Accessed 20 September 2021).

Zero to Three (2016) Three Building Blocks to Effective Supervision, Online. Available at Zero to Three (Accessed 20 September 2021).