The Board and Senior leadership have a critical role in safeguarding by setting the tone of safeguarding risk management and enabling culture. Some of their roles include:

• Ensuring that they appoint among themselves a safeguarding board member / Trustee;
• Consider safeguarding as a standard agenda during board meetings;
• Setting the strategic direction for safeguarding, and ensuring that there are adequate resources to support its implementation;
• Approve safeguarding and related policies and hold management accountable for their implementation;
• Provide oversight over management through receiving and reviewing regular progress reports on the implementation of safeguarding;
• Provide safeguarding risk management and compliance oversight;
• Making sure senior leadership understand and models good practice, and;
• Ensure that safeguarding focal points/champions are appointed at all levels of the organization.