Safeguarding Policy and Guidance
The Charity Commission sets out obligations for charities, such as NHS Confederation to ensure all individuals it works with are protected from harm or abuse. This includes staff, members, visitor, board members and trustees.
Purpose of this policy
The Charity Commission sets out obligations for charities, such as NHS Confederation to ensure all individuals it works with are protected from harm or abuse. This includes staff, members, visitor, board members and trustees.
This policy sets out how the NHS Confederation fulfils its safeguarding obligations to create a safe environment for everyone.
Scope
This policy applies to everyone working at or with the NHS Confederation. It applies to:
- all staff, including chief executives, directors, senior managers, employees (whether permanent, fixed term or temporary), seconded staff, homeworkers, agency workers and volunteers
- consultants and contractors
- trustees and committee members.
Any employing or contracting manager must ensure that all temporary staff, consultants, or contractors are aware of this policy.
By the NHS Confederation we mean the NHS Confederation charity, any subsidiary companies, and any hosted networked organisation.
The NHS Confederation has designated the Director of People and Governance as the individual who is responsible for ensuring that the NHS Confederation implements this policy.
Safeguarding and creating a safe environment for everyone cuts across the entire organisation, it’s work and culture. This policy should be viewed in that context and particularly read in conjunction with the organisation’s Dignity at Work and Whistleblowing Policies as well as our values and behaviours and code of conduct for staff and trustees; our EDI strategy and our anti-racism strategy.
