5.8 Your policy and procedures checklist
Policy and procedures should be regularly reviewed and updated (at least every year), and also after any incidents to make sure learning is embedded. They must be implemented, tested for effectiveness, monitored, and updated based on how well they work in practice – and staff should be trained, so they understand how to put them into practice.
Perhaps the big question is:
What should be included in your organisation’s policy and procedures?
It may help to remember that safeguarding is a combination of what organisations and individuals do to prevent abuse and manage risk, and what they do to respond when concerns arise. Keep this in mind in the following activity.
Your checklist – measures that prevent or respond to abuse
Here is a list of some actions that help safeguard everyone in sport. Can you identify using the drop-down menu which ones will help to prevent abuse from happening (Prevent), which are part of a response to concerns (Respond), or in some cases which can help to do both (Prevent and Respond)?
To help get you started, we have provided the first four answers and an explanation. Take time to read these explanations.
5.7 Reinforcing your learning about safeguarding measures
