While we help organisations demonstrate qualitative compliance, it’s important to recognise that compliance alone does not make an organisation child safe. Gaps in legislation and sector standards mean additional safeguarding measures are essential for truly effective child safeguarding and protection and to help mitigate child safety risks for staff and the organisation. However, compliance is necessary and serves as a great starting point. If you would welcome assistance in evidencing compliance with your requirements, we can provide tailored assistance to help you get there.

To be genuinely child safe, organisations must, at a minimum, implement a range of essential safeguards, which align with Child Safe Organisation Principles. Individually, these essential safeguards strengthen key practices and help to further reduce risks for children, staff, and the organisation. Collectively, they lay the foundation for a safeguarding culture. For many organisations with resource limitations (such as staffing or budget), introducing essential safeguards is a great gradual implementation of integrating child safety best practices into the organisation’s framework while still aiming to become a child safety organisation. Explore how we can assist you across a range of essential safeguards, or simply contact us for guidance on the best child safety approach for your organisation.

Our Child Safety Ambassador Programme is a Child Safe Organisation best practice model that holistically embeds Child Safe Organisation Principles across your people, services, and environments. Helping organisations implement effective child safeguarding and protection measures that demonstrate sustained outcomes and foster a strong safeguarding culture that protects everyone: children and young people, staff and volunteers, and the organisation itself. Both best practice and accreditation models involve intensive development and implementation phases, followed by ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Should the organisation decide to also pursue safeguarding accreditation, a best practice model, such as our Child Safety Ambassador Programme, lays the groundwork and the essential foundations for accreditation, often making the accreditation process smoother and more cost-effective. Learn about our tailored Child Safety Ambassador Best Practice Model, or simply contact us for guidance on the best child safety approach for your organisation.

Accreditation can be a strong demonstration of an organisation’s commitment to child safety. It can also help to restore trust following significant child safety failings. However, accreditation programmes usually mirror best practice models; it is the process factors, such as formal assessment and verification requirements, along with the external endorsement, that create the difference between best practice and accredited practice. With the differences between accreditation and best practice programmes relating to processes, rather than child safety focus points, many organisations can achieve the same child safety elements of accreditation through a child safety best practice model. This can also be a much more cost-effective yet robust alternative to helping organisations strengthen their safeguarding frameworks and receive external endorsement, all without the formal accreditation process, yet still laying the groundwork should accreditation be pursued later. Explore whether Safeguarding Accreditation is the right fit for your organisation and how we can support you. Or, whether our Child Safety Ambassador Programme could be a more cost-efficient yet equally effective solution. Alternatively, you can contact us for guidance on the best approach for your organisation.