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Welcome to the Safeguarding Hub! This space aims to provide Citizens for Change staff, volunteers, new recruits, and partners with easily accessible and clear safeguarding information and supportive resources.

At Citizens for Change, we are committed to providing safe, inclusive and violence-free environments for our staff and people we come in contact with. We achieve this by implementing clear safeguarding guidelines, training our team, and actively managing risks to ensure the well-being and best-interest of all involved.

Questions? Here’s how to reach us:

Safeguarding FAQs

C4C code of conduct

Safeguarding our people in the field

Data Safeguarding

Safeguarding children we come into contact with in the field

Safeguarding during recruitment

Safeguarding our people in the workplace

📞 Contacts of Key Safeguarding personnel

safeguarding@citizens4change.net

📣 Safeguarding Forms

🚨 Report Safeguarding Incident

🔗 Field Visit Pre-departure form

🔗 Code of Conduct form

🔗 Anonymous Reporting breach of C4C Code of Conduct

🔗 Professional Reference Check Form

🔗 Data Protection Policy Forms

📸 Photo consent form - General

📸 Media consent form for children participating in research

📸 Media consent form for adults participating in research

📣 Safeguarding Policies

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy

Whistleblowing Policy

Acceptable IT Use Policy

C4C’s Disciplinary Procedure

🧘🏽‍♀️ Self-care exercises for stress management

  1. Access Free Guided Mindfulness Activities
  2. Tips to decrease travel stress
  3. Stress reduction exercises
  4. Mental Preparedness - build your resilience during a high risk situation

📚 Safeguarding Learning Hub

(self-paced online courses)

Mandatory

  1. Safeguarding Essentials
  2. Equality in the Workplace
  3. Wellbeing in the Workplace

Recommended

  1. Data Responsibility Awareness Training - Essentials
  2. Caring for Others, Caring for Ourselves: Trauma-Informed Care and Mental Health Basics for Direct Service Teams
  3. Child Protection Minimum Standards
  4. Staff Care and Wellbeing ****for Managers
  5. Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
  6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  7. Stress Awareness
  8. Personal Resilience

📚 Other Resources and Support

  1. Understanding and Coping with Travel Stress and Re-Entry
  2. What To Do About Burnout: Identifying Your Sources
  3. For your data safeguarding queries, get free data protection advice from Trust Keith or reach out to our data protection officer
  4. Sign up with Wellbeing in Your Office to receive free wellbeing resources directly to your inbox each week
  5. Workshops series on inclusive leadership for Managers
  6. Working with survivors safely and ethically