Safeguarding Self Assessment

Building Confidence in Culture and Practice

The Petros Safeguarding Assessment reviews your organsiation’s safeguarding culture, recruitment, training, reporting and recovery after a safeguarding breach. This helps understand compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements, but more importantly how safeguarding is viewed and understood by staff. The resulting report from this assessment will identify strengths and potential vulnerabilities in safeguarding, such as;

Organisational safeguarding culture – How safeguarding is embedded in policies, leadership, and day-to-day practice.
Effectiveness of recruitment processes – Ensuring safer recruitment practices that minimise risk and promote safeguarding awareness from the outset.
Training and staff confidence – Assessing the quality, accessibility, and impact of safeguarding training, including staff understanding and application.
Reporting mechanisms – Evaluating the clarity, accessibility, and effectiveness of safeguarding reporting procedures.

Response to safeguarding concerns – How swiftly and effectively safeguarding concerns are addressed and managed.
Post-incident recovery and support – Assessing how the organisation supports individuals and improves safeguarding measures following an incident.
Compliance with regulatory requirements – Ensuring alignment with safeguarding legislation, policies, and industry best practices.
Areas of strength and vulnerability – Identifying key successes and areas that may require additional attention or improvement.

Safeguarding for Business Case Studies

We are thrilled and delighted to be awarded ‘Best Mental Health Consultancy’ in This Can Happen Awards 2021 This Can Happen is an organisation that supports employers and employees across the world to create a positive environment for good mental health in the workplace.

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The Head of Health and Safety at United Response approached the company’s insurer because of a seemingly intractable problem with workplace stress and high staff turnover.

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We deliver training for the UK justice system, supporting staff and managers whose roles put them into challenging and often potentially traumatic situations every day.

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A recent survey for Mind reported that just 11% of people would speak to their manager about their mental health (Pulse Survey April 2020). The GMC reports 85% and this is recognised as largely due to their long-term partnership with Petros.

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Safeguarding in Faith Communities – Episode 1

Safeguarding is often described in policies and procedures as if it were a fixed set of rules, but in our first episode of the Faithful Safeguarding podcast, Professor Jo Clarke invites us to go deeper into the emotional heart of safeguarding, and the cultural challenges of doing it well, especially within faith settings.

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Theology and Safeguarding: Faith in Practice

In this second interview for the Faithful Safeguarding series, I speak with Professor Marcus Pound, theologian and member of the Global Safeguarding Alliance. His recent work, The Cross of the Moment, explores the lived experience of abuse within Catholic communities and asks how theology can inform better safeguarding practice.

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Why Inclusive Safeguarding Must Start With Listening

What does it mean to create a safeguarding policy that truly reflects the lives of those it is designed to protect? And how can faith communities shift from surface-level inclusion to frameworks that acknowledge power, difference, and marginalisation?

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Desistance, Risk and Redemption: Rethinking Safeguarding After Conviction

When does someone with a criminal record stop being a risk? And how can safeguarding systems distinguish between danger and change without undermining safety?

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Naming Harm, Building Culture: Spiritual Abuse and Safeguarding from Within

What happens when the person harming you speaks in the name of God? And how can safeguarding leaders respond when the culture around them is shaped by silence, obligation, or theological confusion?

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