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Charity trustees: your duties to safeguard and protect (2.0)

Course Description

If you are a charity trustee, this CPD certified course will help you to fulfil your duties to safeguard and protect anyone who comes into contact with your charity. This not only includes your beneficiaries, who may include children, young people and adults at risk, but also your staff, volunteers, visitors and members of the public. These responsibilities also extend to your charity’s relationships with partners, contractors and any organisations that you may fund.

  Developed by NSPCC subject matter experts, the course covers:

  •  the UK framework of legislation and guidance underpinning a trustee’s safeguarding role
  • specific statutory responsibilities to keep people safe
  • how to create a safe and trusted culture and organisational environment
  • how to work with, support and challenge colleagues effectively in terms of safeguarding arrangements.

This course features interviews with trustees from different charities and specialists in the field sharing their knowledge and expertise. It also includes film scenarios, scenario-based exercises, interactive assessment tasks, activities and learning pages, as well as links to further information and resources.

elearning £25.00
Quantity Price per person
1-9 £25.00
10-49 £22.50
50-99 £21.25
100-999 £20.00


  • Modules
      • Introduction
      • Module 1: What is abuse and neglect?
      • Module 2: Your duties and their context
      • Module 3: Creating a safe culture
      • Module 4: Working effectively with your management team
      • Conclusion
  • Duration
    • It should take you about 2–3 hours to complete the course. 
    • You will have access to the course for one year following purchase. You can take it as many times as you like in that time.
  • Certificate of achievement
    • This course is CPD certified, once you've successfully completed this course you can download a personalised certificate of achievement.
  • Why take your training with NSPCC
    • At the NSPCC, we work to keep children and young people safe from abuse and neglect every day. 

    •  As experts in safeguarding and child protection, we understand the issues organisations and people working with children can face. That’s why professionals trust us to provide the support, training and resources they need to help protect the children and young people they work with. 

    •  Our highly-rated training courses are developed by experts. We work with a number of organisations, experienced consultants and subject matter experts in a range of sectors to develop courses that are clear, easy-to-use, up-to-date and in line with the latest statutory guidance, and tailored to your needs. 

    •  And as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

  • Technical requirements
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