Information sheets

• 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 August 2009, PDF)
• Recruiting volunteer mentors and befrienders
• Data protection Guidelines
• Child 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 of volunteers
• Screening and Police Checking
• Types of Insurance Policy: to cover volunteers?
• National Minimum Wage & Expenses
• Sample Volunteer Agreements
• Who Is Allowed To Volunteer?
• Volunteer Drivers
• Accepting volunteers from overseas
• Accreditation of voluntary work