Empowering Boards and Board level safeguarding leads

Partnering with franchised organisations and decentralised models to provide central oversight of safeguarding arrangements and mitigate safeguarding risks.

The umbrella or parent organisations of franchised and decentralised models can find themselves at a distance from the management and oversight of safeguarding across their delivery partners. They have little assurance of how well the management of safeguarding arrangemets is happening and how well cases of concern are being identified, recorded and reported.

This creates a legal, moral and reputational risk for the organisation and it's brand which requires mitigation. Keep Equip is the tool you need to mitigate this risk.

Keep Equip is an affordable partnership approach to managing your safeguarding arrangements and sharing your safeguarding risks.

What is Keep Equip?
If your franchise or decentralised organisational model doesn't have a monitoring and assurance system for safeguarding, you can't ensure your delivery partners are managing safeguarding effectively and responsibly.

Large organisations and those with mandated safeguarding requirements manage these risks through their internal safeguarding governance frameworks.

Keep Equip can be your off-the-shelf, bolt-on safeguarding governance framework and will help you protect your people by improving accountability and practice.

It will reduce the opportunities for abuse, bullying, neglect and exploitation to happen to your people, inside and outside your organisation, and gives a stronger voice to everyone involved. In turn, more people will have a safer, happier experience as a result of your commitment to safeguarding.
Who's it for and why is it important?
Keep Equip is for any organisation that facilitates a decentralised model of delivery and whose leaders are at arms length from the front line of delivery.

Keep Equip ensures best practice standards are met at the front line, and provides a means to assure they are being used appropriately.

Essentially, we'll give you the same tools that cetralised organisations take for granted, without putting undue expectations on your delivery partners or on your assurance function.

Find out more about why strong safeguarding governance is important in our blog post
The missing piece
What you get with Keep Equip?
Corporate style safeguarding governance, without the hastle!

A subscription to Keep Equip provides you with safeguarding governance arrangements, effectively a virtual Board-level safeguarding lead who will deliver:
Expert independent processes for triaging all safeguarding concerns and allegations
Case information stored on a market leading secure online safeguarding case management system
Case management monitoring service to ensure no cases are lost or forgotten before actions are completed
An online concern reporting form available to your staff and beneficiaries or participants
Regular independent analysis of your safeguarding data and safeguarding risks provided to your delivery partner's leadership and you as the umbrella organisation.
An annual review of your core safeguarding policy, procedures and staff/volunteer code of conduct
Why work with us?
Keep Governance and Safeguarding works in partnership with organisations focussed on improving their safeguarding frameworks. We take a strategic perspective, ensuring your safeguarding work is effective and protects your people.
With extensive experience providing support for safeguarding leaders, including Heads of Safeguarding and Board members with responsibility for safeguarding at some of the Premier League's top Clubs or the Trustees of National Charities, we are well placed to help you effectively discharge your responsibilities while ensuring your operational arrangements are robust.
Your safeguarding quality mark
You want everyone involved in your organisation to understand how committed you are to safeguarding.

Because we won't sign up any Tom, Dick or Harry, but check your arrangements, and help you development them, we will issue a quality mark to all our customers to display on their website.

Its a great way to show your customers that you have strong safeguarding goivernance and practice in place. We'll verify the mark by having a dedicated page on our website to show who deserves it.