Information sheets

• Effective safeguarding of service users and volunteers in mentoring and befriending projects (August 2010)
• Developing a matching process for your mentoring or befriending project (July 2010)
• Managing waiting lists for service users and volunteers in your mentoring or befriending project (July 2010)
• Influencing decision making at local authority level - an introduction for mentoring and befriending projects (updated Dec 2009, PDF)
• A new vetting and barring scheme: implications for recruiting volunteers and employees in mentoring and befriending activity with children and vulnerable adults (updated June 2010, PDF)
• Recruiting volunteer mentors and befrienders
• Data protection Guidelines
• Mentee/Befriendee Induction Guidelines
  
  

The following information sheets on volunteer management were produced by Volunteering England who have given permission for us to include them on our site:

• Health and safety for volunteers
• An introduction to Criminal Record Bureau Disclosures for volunteers
• Insurance for volunteers
• The National Minimum Wage Act and Volunteers
• Sample Volunteer Agreement
• Who Is Allowed To Volunteer?
• Volunteer Drivers
• Accreditation of volunteering