Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees
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What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Manage the risks
- Types of risks and harm
- Policies, procedures and practices you need to have
- Code of conduct
- Other policies you need to have
- Checking your charity's policies, procedures and practice
- Get checks on trustees, staff and volunteers
- Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) - criminal records checks
- People from overseas
- Sending workers overseas
- Automatic disqualification
- Protect volunteers and staff
- Safeguarding children or adults at risk
- Safeguarding children
- Safeguarding adults at risk
- Operating online
Source and licence
The Charity Commission
AttributionThe Charity Commission, ‘Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees’ (updated 1 June 2022), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026