Charity safeguarding policy checker

Official sources to check

• Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees is the Charity Commission guidance for trustees in England and Wales.
• How to report a serious incident in your charity should be checked where an incident, allegation, abuse concern, harm, or significant risk may need reporting.
• Charities and risk management (CC26) should be checked when safeguarding risks need to be recorded and monitored in the trustee risk register.

Related trustee tools

• Charity serious incident reporting checker for actual or alleged harm, abuse, data breach, governance, overseas, or partner reporting signals.
• Charity risk register checker for putting safeguarding and protecting-people risks into trustee risk review.
• Charity data protection readiness checker for safeguarding records, sensitive personal data, processors, retention, and breach response.
• Charity password and access security checker for safeguarding record access, online services, passwords, MFA, and offboarding.

What this checker should prevent

• Treating safeguarding as a template policy instead of a trustee-owned governance and assurance process.
• Running services, online groups, overseas projects, or volunteer roles without clear reporting routes, role checks, training, and records.
• Waiting until an annual policy review to respond to abuse concerns, allegations, unsafe practice, or serious incident reporting triggers.
• Keeping safeguarding records, DBS decisions, images, complaints, or concern logs in uncontrolled folders or personal accounts.