17: Charity trustees’ responsibilities

In this episode, our contributors discuss: the role and responsibilities of a charity trustee the key to good governance in a charity the importance of complying with legislation and guidance around keeping children safe  top tips to ensure charity trustees and managers are working well and playing an active role in safeguarding.   This episode features: Host – Chris Cloke, former Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC Cate Meredith, Senior Consultant for NSPCC’s Safeguarding in Communities team Kathy Evans, CEO of Children England   This series was carried out as part a partnership led by NCVO (https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncvo.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csubscriptions%40NSPCC.org.uk%7C3097d6af6ba64c9e139608d727a873a5%7C3c4f002a8d6d4ede8372faf47ca8473f%7C0%7C0%7C637021477994329765&sdata=9zoAUlrtydWdw17ejJ3%2BqYa4NoGzC1ERWXb4CBNLj7k%3D&reserved=0) , funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Forganisations%2Fdepartment-for-digital-culture-media-sport&data=02%7C01%7Csubscriptions%40NSPCC.org.uk%7C3097d6af6ba64c9e139608d727a873a5%7C3c4f002a8d6d4ede8372faf47ca8473f%7C0%7C0%7C637021477994339759&sdata=coXYtjxy7DByIAOqx8v0kN4VMqh6owC0cVFGLARADHQ%3D&reserved=0) and the National Lottery Fund (https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csubscriptions%40NSPCC.org.uk%7C3097d6af6ba64c9e139608d727a873a5%7C3c4f002a8d6d4ede8372faf47ca8473f%7C0%7C0%7C637021477994339759&sdata=9kCMVGFzQikOHFYU%2FXbu1QxZRQVPaTEKLWR6j1ayQgI%3D&reserved=0) within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website (https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/news/2019/september/podcast-charity-trustees-responsibilities/#transcript) .