Improve your leadership skills and organisational culture to help keep people safe. Develop your leadership skills and enhance organisational culture. There is a growing need to develop leadership skills and a culture of accountability within organisations working with vulnerable communities in the international aid sector.

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This free, four-week blended course will help you improve your leadership capacity. It will provide an opportunity for critical reflection on your personal leadership skills and styles and a chance to share frameworks and tools with peers through online discussion.

You’ll be able to join live webinars with esteemed speakers, which will further support the development of your advanced safeguarding practice. 

This course will equip you with the skills to support greater accountability in your organisation and challenge impunity in the sector, to foster public trust and keep staff, and beneficiaries alike, safe.

Take a strengths-based approach to leadership

You’ll explore the importance of organisational culture and how this is conducive to safeguarding. The course will also emphasise the role of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in promoting safeguarding.

You’ll have the chance to evaluate mechanisms for reporting, responding, and investigating safeguarding concerns before learning how to take a strengths-based approach to leadership, good governance, and organisational oversight in safeguarding.  

Access safeguarding training from the experts at The Open University

This course was co-created by senior academic safeguarding specialists from The Open University and an international human rights and safeguarding expert who has worked with several international aid agencies.

Course materials were developed with support from BOND, CHS Alliance, Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub, leaders in the sector and critically reviewed by leaders and safeguarding leads in international aid agencies.

Syllabus

Week 1: Leadership skills required for safeguarding

Week 2: The importance of a safe organisational culture

Week 3: Reporting, responding and investigations

Week 4: Good governance and organisational oversight

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Improve personalised approaches to safeguarding and embed evidence-based and culturally sensitive ways of working in your organisation.

- Critically reflect on personal leadership skills using different frameworks and tools to embed a safe organisational culture.

- Share learning on good practice on safer reporting and responding in order to improve accountability.

- Implement good governance with clear senior oversight of organisational safeguarding.
Who is the course for?

This course is designed for those in leadership, governance, or management positions who have a joint responsibility in safeguarding.