TIER 1
1 to 3 people
One safeguarding lead, and one named external backup.
Safeguarding that works in your organisation
A free, complete safeguarding system for youth, volunteering and mobility organisations across Europe. Seven courses, thirty-two ready-to-use documents, and a step-by-step path scaled to the size of your organisation.
Totally Free · No account needed
English, French, Romanian and Lithuanian.
What do you need to do?
Discover the tools and support systems designed to facilitate your learning journey.
Set up safeguarding
You have little or nothing in place. Eleven steps, in order, with the documents you need for each one.
Run a project safely
Activities are coming up. What must be in place before they start — including travel, partners, online sessions and participants under 18.
Review and improve
You have the paperwork. Check it against twelve standards and find out what to fix this year.
What is on this website?
Safe Spaces gives every organisation, whatever its size, a complete and usable safeguarding system — courses, documents, and a path you can follow.
Seven courses
From recognising abuse to digital safeguarding and data protection. Forty-five minutes each, taken here on the site, with a certificate at the end of each one. Free.
find out moreThirty-two ready-to-use documents
Policy templates, consent forms, incident logs, response flow charts, quick reference cards. Adapt them, add your organisation’s details, use them.
find out moreResearch
What safeguarding looks like across the European youth sector, and where the gaps are.
find out more
Whether you are three or sixty
Safeguarding standards do not change with the size of your organisation. How you meet them does. Safe Spaces uses a three-tier model, so a small association and a large NGO can both meet the same standard without pretending to have structures they do not have.
TIER 2
4 to 15 people
One safeguarding lead, and one deputy inside the organisation.
TIER 3
16 or more people
A lead, a deputy, and an optional support team — or any organisation hosting European Solidarity Corps volunteers.
Your tier reflects your capacity, not your commitment.
