Training, Workshops & Capacity Building

Effective safeguarding requires people at every level ( board members, senior leaders, safeguarding officers, operational staff, and volunteers) to understand their responsibilities, recognise risk, and know how to act.

All learning programmes delivered by Right to be Safe can be made bespoke, and designed to build genuine awareness and capability within a given sector, organisation and context. 

 

We design for the specific organisation, risk environment, and audience. All programmes cover child and adult safeguarding as relevant, and can be adapted for in-person, virtual, or hybrid delivery across culturally and professionally diverse groups.

Safeguarding Frameworks

Foundations of Safeguarding

  • Audience: All staff and volunteers, regardless of role.

Introduction to safeguarding principles, recognition of harm, obligations, and reporting pathways. Designed to build a shared, confident baseline across the whole organisation.

 

Safeguarding Leadership & Governance

  • Audience: Board members, trustees, senior leaders.

Governance responsibilities, accountability frameworks (sector specific), managing organisational safeguarding risk, and leading a safeguarding culture. Draws on international governance standards.

 

Remedy, Redress & Long-Term Support

  • Audience: Leadership, legal, safeguarding leads.

Designing pathways for meaningful remedy based on human rights principles and understanding of different forms of redress. 

 

Safeguarding Policy Development

  • Audience: Senior leadership, safeguarding leads, legal teams, HR, governance bodies.

Designing safeguarding policies that are legally robust, contextually relevant, and operationally implementable. This workshop moves beyond template-driven approaches to develop policies grounded in risk, organisational function, and lived realities of affected persons. 

 

Safeguarding Strategy Development

  • Audience: Executive leadership, boards, safeguarding leads, strategy and planning teams.

Applying structured strategic frameworks;  including theory of change, risk-based planning, and maturity modelling; to define vision, objectives, outcomes, and measurable indicators of success. Integrates internal capacity analysis with external ecosystem mapping, recognising that safeguarding operates across interconnected systems.

Specialist Practice

Safeguarding Officer & Designated Lead Training

  • Audience: Designated safeguarding leads and officers.

In-depth training covering case identification, management, recording, referral, multi-agency working, and professional supervision. This training is context and sector specific. 

 

Effective Case Management & Recording

  • Audience: Safeguarding leads and case managers.

Managing and recording disclosures and concerns in a way that is fair, transparent, proportionate, and does not compound harm to those involved.

 

Supervision of Safeguarding Staff

  • Audience: Managers of safeguarding personnel.

Structured, reflective supervision that strengthens professional curiosity, ethical decision-making, and oversight of complex cases, while embedding wellbeing and managing vicarious trauma.

 

Trauma-Informed Safeguarding Investigations

  • Audience: Investigation officers, HR leads, legal teams.

Planning and conducting investigations that are procedurally robust and trauma-informed, with emphasis on survivor-centred approaches, evidence handling, risk management, and minimising re-traumatisation.

 

Safe Recruitment

  • Audience: HR professionals, managers, volunteer coordinators.

Implementing robust recruitment, screening, and vetting processes proportionate to role risk and organisational context.

 

Safeguarding Risk Assessment

  • Audience: Programme managers, operational leads.

Identifying and assessing safeguarding risk at individual and organisational level (including person of concern, operational, and reputational risk)

Sector-Specific Programmes

Safeguarding in Sport

  • Audience: Sport organisations at all levels (federations, clubs, academies).

Power dynamics in sport environments, athlete welfare, coach and staff conduct, event risk, and the specific vulnerabilities from grassroots to high-performance settings.

 

Safeguarding in Humanitarian & Crisis Settings

  • Audience: Humanitarian staff and field teams.

Heightened risk factors in displacement and crisis settings, protection mainstreaming, PSEA, and working effectively in low-resource and insecure environments.

 

Safeguarding at Major Events

  • Audience: Organising committees, host cities, event management teams.

Event-specific risk, venue safeguarding, volunteer management, rapid response protocols, and working with diverse multi-national teams at scale.

 

Safeguarding in Operations

  • Audience: Programme staff and field teams.

Operationalising safeguarding within programme and service delivery,  integrating risk assessments, reporting mechanisms, and safeguarding controls into everyday practice across diverse contexts and functions.

 

Safeguarding in Partnerships & Supply Chains

  • Audience: Programme managers, procurement, partnerships teams.

Extending safeguarding beyond the organisation to partners, contractors, and delivery chains. Covers due diligence, contracting, monitoring, and accountability when harm occurs externally. 

 

Safeguarding in Cross-Border & Multi-Jurisdictional Contexts

  • Audience: International federations, NGOs, legal, safeguarding leads.

Navigating conflicting legal frameworks, reporting thresholds, data sharing, and duty of care across jurisdictions. Includes managing cases where local systems are weak or compromised.

Advanced & Specialist

People and  Culture

  • Audience: organisation wide

Moving beyond compliance-driven approaches to build an organisational culture where safeguarding is actively lived; this module examines how hierarchy, performance pressure, and organisational culture enable (or not) abuse. 

 

Case Practice Review & Organisational Learning

  • Audience: Safeguarding teams, senior professionals, board members

For organisations wanting to strengthen learning from cases; including how to conduct case reviews that generate genuine improvement and embed the journey towards becoming a learning organisation

 

Managing Allegations Against Staff & Persons in Positions of Trust

  • Audience: HR, safeguarding leads, senior management, legal.

Handling allegations in a way that is procedurally fair, legally sound, and survivor-centred. Includes suspension decisions, neutrality, parallel processes (disciplinary vs criminal), and reputational risk management. 

 

Preparedness & Scenario Testing

  • Audience: Organisation wide, multi-agency

Facilitated exercises that test organisational readiness, working through realistic scenarios to identify gaps in knowledge, decision-making, and response capacity before a real situation arises.

 

Specialist Thematic Training

  • Audience: Organisation wide, safeguarding staff

Deep-dive training on specific child and adult safeguarding themes including: human trafficking and exploitation (humanitarian and sport contexts), sexual abuse and exploitation, online abuse, criminal exploitation, labour exploitation, emotional abuse, neglect, bullying, etc. Topics available as standalone sessions or integrated into broader programmes.

Participation

Child & Adult Participation in Safeguarding Systems

  • Audience: Programme designers, safeguarding leads, policy teams.

Moving from tokenistic consultation to meaningful participation in decision-making, policy design, and evaluation. Includes ethical and respectful engagement and managing risk when involving lived experience. 

 

Survivor-Centred Practice & Advocacy Integration

  • Audience: Safeguarding leads, case managers, senior leaders.

Embedding survivor voice into safeguarding responses and system design. Covers independent advocacy models, power redistribution, and avoiding institutional betrayal. 

 

Child friendly material and/or participation

Support to engage with children and young people on the creation of child friendly material, policy and procedures. Ensuring the ‘voice of the child’ is included in systems design and implementation.

Bespoke Programmes

Not seeing what you need?

We have designed specialist training for judicial entities, intergovernmental organisations, national and international sport federations, civil society bodies, and organisations working at the intersection of sport and human rights. If your context is specific, that is exactly our speciality. Get in touch to discuss a bespoke programme.

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Should you wish to discuss a potential collaboration or require any further information, please feel free to contact us using the email below. 

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