This unit has explored organisational culture, and why it is pivotal to the organisation’s approach to safeguarding.

Strengthening diversity and inclusion is a way to enable all staff to feel valued and safe as it should address inequality within organisations and the sector as a whole. Building an internal safeguarding culture makes the workplace safer and leads to safer programming and ways of working.

Leaders are pivotal to shaping an organisation’s safeguarding culture and are responsible for effectively managing and ensuring continuous improvement in safeguarding policies, practices and behaviours.

Now go to Unit 3: Reporting, responding and investigations.

References

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UK Government (2015) Learning not blaming. The government response to the Freedom to Speak Up consultation, the Public Administration Select Committee report, Investigating Clinical Incidents in the NHS, and the Morecambe Bay Investigation. [Online]. Available at Gov.uk.

Williams, A. (2018) A respectful organisational culture is crucial to safeguarding [Online]. Available at Bond.