👋🏼 Welcome to DigiSafe

A step-by-step digital safeguarding guide. For charities designing new services or taking existing ones online.

Contents

🚀 1. Start here

What DigiSafe will do for you. How to use it.

🌳 2. Build foundations

How to integrate digital risks and safety into your existing safeguarding policy. The groundwork for your DigiSafe journey.

⚖️ 3. Assess risk

How to assess and mitigate risk as you design and deliver an online service. The best tool for designing a safe service.

📋 4. Apply principles

Universal digital safeguarding principles you need to design for. These apply to any service delivered in part or in whole via any digital platform.

🎗️ 5. Design for safety

Different online service types. The particular risks and issues of each.

🎓 6. Educate everyone

How to teach your users to stay safe and your staff to identify abuse.

About

Published by Catalyst. Written and designed by four organisations working together to the Catalyst charter: AVA Project, CAST, SIDE Labs and Working with Joe.

DigiSafe is...

• Currently in Alpha. That means we are testing it out and expect to iterate it further. Please feed back on your experience.

• Published using GitBook, which offers discounts for non-profits.

• Released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

• Evolved from AVA’s Digital Safeguarding Guide (April 2020).

• Funded by The Clothworkers' Foundation.

June 2020