Our independent consultancy services offer organisations an objective and impactful assessment, free from internal biases. They offer valuable opportunities to learn, strengthen practices, and ensure future safety.
By demonstrating accountability through an independent review, organisations can foster greater public confidence and trust, showing their commitment to transparency and improvement.
Read about our approach to our consultancy services, or choose from our list of services below.
Find a service to meet your need:
Our safeguarding audit and review service can provide a comprehensive analysis of your organisation’s safeguarding. We'll look at your policy, process, and procedure, as well as your culture, to give you confidence in your strengths and areas for development.
Our risk assessment service can help your organisation explore the safeguarding risks surrounding a person or activity, looking at known concerns or allegations and give you an independent and external view together with the steps to take to reduce any risk.
Our independent case and learning review service can give your organisation an objective expert assessment of any risks, concerns or ways you can improve to better protect vulnerable people from harm. We can look at general safeguarding, a single case, or a collection of cases.
Our culture audit offers an independent, comprehensive evaluation to help you establish and maintain a healthy organisational culture. It examines six key components: communication, listening, power management, governance, structure, and safe behaviours.
For organisations working internationally we have a range of specialist safeguarding and child protection tools and services to help meet the complex and specific issues faced working with partners outside of the UK in different cultural settings and contexts.
Our complaints investigation service can be used as part of your organisation's policy for responding to and handling complaints. At the appeal stage of a complaint our independent investigation process can give objective and trusted recommendations.
Our safeguarding consultations give an opportunity for your organsiation to get the benefit of speaking with one of our independent and expert consultants about your safeguarding processes and procedures or get specific advice and guidance about a concern.
Our Safeguarding Advisors will review your risk assessment and behaviour contract where additional safeguarding measures need to be in place for individuals in your organisation. For example, those who have previous criminal convictions or are currently under investigation and who may pose a risk.
Our crisis management service is on hand to help your organisation manage a safeguarding crisis situation as it develops, giving you expert guidance and advice. Following a crisis we can support with any learning, and help you respond well to any victims and survivors.
Dealing with allegations of misconduct within staff teams is a sensitive and complex task which needs specialist skills and expertise. Our independent management investigation service can ensure a fair, impartial and evidence-based outcome for all.
Our listening support service can be offered by your organisation to any adult victims and survivors of abuse to help them talk through their experiences in confidence, think about what actions they may want to take and support them in taking any next steps.
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