Do you recruit or manage volunteers? Then this online information session has been designed to help you.  It will help you ensure that your volunteer recruitment and ongoing volunteer management is as safe as possible and highlight some areas that can be missed when thinking about safeguarding, such as access to client data and use of social media.

The session will be particularly useful to anyone who recruits and manages volunteers where services are being delivered to vulnerable adults and/or children and young people (This includes recruiting and managing volunteers who do not have to have a DBS).

The session will help

• Improve your management of safer volunteer recruitment processes.
• Increase your awareness of the need to embed safeguarding linked to volunteers into the ongoing process of management and supervision including health and safety
• An understanding that the potential access a volunteer has to client records and social media interaction needs to be   limited and carefully managed within clear boundaries
• A clear understanding of the responsibility to refer if things go wrong

Who should attend

Anyone who recruits and manages volunteers where services are being delivered to vulnerable adults and/or children and young people.  Safeguarding is everybodies business and this course is applicable to any organisation delivering services for the community.

This course is subsidised and is for Richmond not-for-profit, social enterprise and community groups only.  If you are unsure if you qualify for a subsidised place on this course or you are unable to select the appropriate ticket type please call before booking.

Please note that by registering for our training you will be bound by Richmond CVS’s training terms and conditions.

Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event. These will only cover the cost of your ticket(s) and do not include Eventbrite's booking fee.

The Richmond CVS privacy policy is available on our website.

Facilitator: Heather Mathew

Heather has more than 20 years’ experience working in the not for profit sector, specialising in supporting organisations that work with children and young people. She is a member of the Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Partnership, and was a trustee for 12 years of the Richmond based Small Steps, an early years charity that supports children with motor disabilities. She has worked extensively with local organisations advising on all aspects of vulnerable adult, and child and young peoples safeguarding.

Previously she managed local authority day services for adults with learning difficulties and she continues to volunteer regularly at an older people’s lunch club, and The RKH Crossroads Caring Café for those with dementia and those that care for them. She is passionate about ensuring services and activities are delivered safely, that risk is minimised and that those involved feel confident in identifying risk, and understand their responsibilities both to their beneficiaries and to their staff and volunteers.