| Summary: | Three key documents created and used by Wiltshire YJS for volunteer recruitment. |
Aims:
- To provide good practice to indviduals involved in recruiting volunteers
Description:
Wiltshire Youth Justice Service have produced three key documents produced to support recruitment of volunteers.
- Volunteer Code of Conduct. This document sets out minimum standards of behaviour and provides guidelines to help maintain and improve standards.
- Volunteer Health, Safety and Wellbeing. This document provides volunteers with a framework for minimising risk and protecting themselves and others - there is also a section concerning COVID-19.
- DBS Risk Assessment. This document is concerned with volunteers that have a positive disclosure in regards to previous offending.
Implementing the practice:
- Wiltshire Youth Justice Service provide copies of the volunteer code of conduct and the volunteer health, safety and wellbeing documents to all volunteers.
- The documents are reviewed regularly or when there is a change in legislation.
- The practice is embedded into volunteer recruitment procedures.
Contact:
| Youth Justice Service: | Wiltshire Youth Justice Service |
| Name: | Sue Nash |
| Email: | sue.nash@wiltshire.gov.uk |