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  2. Health and social care
  3. Adult social care
  4. Social care policies and procedures
  5. Volunteers in Adult Social Care
  6. Adult Social Care Volunteer Involvement Policy
  7. Scope

Scope

In this section

  1. 1
    Introduction
  2. 2
    Purpose
  3. 3
    Scope
  4. 4
    Safeguarding
  5. 5
    Making decisions about whether or not to involve volunteers in an Adult Social Care service
  6. 6
    Making people aware of volunteering opportunities
  7. 7
    Who can apply to volunteer within Adult Social Care
  8. 8
    Acceptance/non-acceptance decisions
  9. 9
    Volunteer Code of Conduct and Volunteer Agreement
  10. 10
    Trial period
  11. 11
    Volunteer records
  1. 12
    Induction and ongoing support for volunteers
  2. 13
    Health and safety
  3. 14
    Insurance
  4. 15
    Pre-agreed expenses
  5. 16
    Ending a volunteer agreement/managing concerns
  6. 17
    Emergency Planning
  7. 18
    Monitoring
  8. 19
    Review
  9. 20
    Appendix 1
  10. 21
    Policy details

3.1    This policy will apply whenever volunteers are/are to be involved in any capacity in any Adult Social Care service. 

Last reviewed: 23/06/2025
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