| Summary: | Attached are three key documents created and used by Wilshire YOS for volunteer recruitment including; volunteer code of conduct, health, safety and wellbeing and positive DBS disclosures risk assessment. |
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Aims:
- To provide recommendations for good practice for people who are involved in recruiting volunteers
Description:
Attached below are three key documents produced by Wiltshire Youth Offending Service to support recruitment of volunteers.
- Volunteer code of conduct (this attachments sets out minimum standards of behaviour, provides guidelines to help maintain and improve standards).
- Volunteer health, safety and wellbeing (to give volunteers 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 Offending 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 offending team: | Wiltshire Youth Offending Service |
| Name: | Sue Nash |
| Email: | sue.nash@wiltshire.gov.uk |