Safeguarding in practise: Creating a safe and secure environment for European Solidarity Corps Volunteers

This is a hands-on and very practical training for organisations active in volunteering activities within the European Solidarity Corps who are ready and willing to create and hold safe environments for their volunteers. 

Are you interested in:

Learning how to develop your Safeguarding policy, starting from where you are right now? Or how to further develop your Safeguarding policy if you already have one?

Explore your role, boundaries and limitations in Safeguarding situations?

Have hands-on experiential learning experience of developing your Safeguarding policy through case studies, real-life scenarios, and practice-based exercises?

YES?

Join us for this training course on ‘Safeguarding in practice’ in Rome from 9 till 14 February 2026.  

We are seeking professionals and practitioners with the following:

Active involvement in the European Solidarity Corps programme - Volunteering projects (representatives from accredited organisations in ESC, supervisors, tutors, mentors, NA/SNAC partners representatives)

Willingness to start or further develop your safeguarding policies 

This training is organised by SALTO European Solidarity Corps and Italian National Agency.

Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand how safeguarding guidelines can be created, adapted and implemented in European Solidarity Corps volunteering and daily organisation activities involving ESC volunteers
• Work with and co-create safeguarding materials suitable for their own organisational realities.
• Learn from and with others active within the European Solidarity Corps volunteering by sharing successes, dilemmas, and resources.
• Create clear, actionable safeguarding implementation and development plans that can be taken home and used immediately.

Methods and methodology

Draft version of the working sessions and methods (can still change):

Day 0, 9th. Arrivals

Day 1 Context & Culture

Theme: Understanding how safeguarding fits into different national, organisational, and cultural realities.

Day 2 Good practice & applied learning

Theme: Drawing inspiration from good practice and assessing where your organisation stands.

Day 3 Co-creation & Consultation

Theme: Developing real, usable safeguarding tools and processes.

Day 4 Action planning & Closing

Theme: Moving from workshop to workplace - setting goals and sustaining change.

Day 5  Departures

Composition of the team

Team is composed by SALTO ESC officers, IT NA representatives, together with the trainers Sian Bagshaw and Ann Daniels.