A radical approach to safeguarding that questions the definition of “vulnerable” and instead places all people we work with at the heart of the policy holistically. We propose a shared opportunity to use non-punitive procedures, ask for consent, offer a matrix to attempt to diffuse conflict or avoid involving external agencies and supporting both victim and perpetuator.

A membership, decision making, group structure, core values and code of conduct policy for a user-led member-ship organisation with roughly 100 members, from a wide range of backgrounds.

A policy and process for addressing conflict in a small team, which integrates non-punitive accountability measures and nuanced understandings of conflict and accountability for harm, with the legal requirements of an organisational grievance process.

A comprehensive collection of policies designed to support staff with parental or caring responsibilities, including wider political framing for the importance of this set of policies.

This is a safeguarding policy of a small organisation that facilitates, convenes, and runs trainings. It’s aim is to prevent harm and to empower the person who has experienced harm, avoiding punitive ways of addressing harm and limiting contact with state institutions, where possible, due to the harm these institutions themselves often cause, particularly in marginalised communities.

A plain-English youth work cooperative equality and diversity policy, which makes explicit the range of types of oppression that can play out amongst young people and the cooperative, as well as the ways in which those experiences are often reflections of wider social power dynamics. Outlines the responsibilities of both the organisation and of individual youth workers.