Safeguarding for focal points and trustees

Who is this training for?

This training is for designated Safeguarding Focal Points of organisations working in global solidarity in Wales and Africa, including Safeguarding Focal Points of partners in Africa.

Safeguarding Essentials is a recommended pre-requisite for this training, unless you have completed an equivalent training within the last 2 years. This training is a requirement for Safeguarding Focal Points of both partners receiving a Wales and Africa grant.

What will you learn?

This training will build on the Essentials training, focusing on:

• Roles and responsibilities of the Safeguarding Focal Point
• Leadership, and facilitating a safe organisational culture
• Recognising an incident, and triaging response options
• Responding to an incident, including managing investigations
• Defensible decision making
• Reporting, including reporting to the Charity Commission
• Donor requirements in relation to safeguarding
• Roles and responsibilities of trustees in relation to safeguarding, including the specific responsibilities of the Safeguarding Trustee
• Share templates for key documents that you will need to have in place to underpin best practice in prevention, response and reporting.

The training will include discussion of relevant case studies to apply the concepts from the training. If you have a scenario of concern you would like to explore in the training please contact advice@hubcymruafrica.wales.

This training will take place online via Zoom, and is a participatory training.

It is recommended to join from a computer or laptop if this is possible, to enable participation.

Facilitated by Sarah Mwebaze, Hub Cymru Africa, and WCVA.

Sarah Mwebaze is a Uganda based technical specialist in Safeguarding, with over 20 years experience in safeguarding and child protection. Their background includes implementing robust safeguarding frameworks to protect vulnerable adults in complex settings across sub -Saharan Africa, as well as working as an Advisory specialist to Plan International, and Partners in Health. Sarah has been working with Hub Cymru Africa and the Wales Africa community since 2024, co-facilitating training and providing technical advice and support.