Relevant agencies
Working Together 2023 defines relevant agencies as:
- Relevant agencies are those organisations and agencies whose involvement the safeguarding partners consider are required to safeguard and promote the welfare of local children. A list of organisations that meet the criteria to be included as a relevant agency is set out in regulations.
- Strong, effective multi-agency safeguarding arrangements should be responsive to local circumstances and engage the right people in a collaborative way. This approach requires flexibility from all relevant agencies, to enable joint identification and response to existing and emerging needs, and to agree priorities to improve outcomes for children.
Working Together 2023 also states that:
- Voluntary, charity, social enterprise (VCSE) and private sector organisations and agencies play an important role in safeguarding children through the services they deliver. Some of these will work with particular communities, with different races and faith communities, and deliver via health, adult social care, housing, and Prison and Probation Services. They may, as part of their work, provide a wide range of activities for children and have an important role in safeguarding children and supporting families and communities
- Like other organisations and agencies who work with children, they should have appropriate arrangements in place to safeguard and protect children from harm. Many of these organisations and agencies as well as many schools, children’s centres, early years, and childcare organisations, will be subject to charity law and regulated either by the Charity Commission and/or other “principal” regulators. Charity trustees are responsible for ensuring that those benefiting from, or working with, their charity, are not harmed in any way through contact with it. The Charity Commission for England and Wales provides guidance on charity compliance which should be followed.
Charities Act 2011 section 1 definition:
(1)For the purposes of the law of England and Wales, “charity” means an institution which—
(a)is established for charitable purposes only, and
(b)falls to be subject to the control of the High Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction with respect to charities.
(2)The definition of “charity” in subsection (1) does not apply for the purposes of an enactment if a different definition of that term applies for those purposes by virtue of that or any other enactment.
Index of charities and relevant agencies in RBWM covering adults, children and young people
A
Adult Dyslexia Centre
Afro Caribbean Heritage Society
Age Concern Windsor
Age UK Berkshire
Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service
Alma Beacon
Alzheimers Dementia Support
Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
Assisting Berkshire Children to Read
B
Berkshire Art Quartet
Braywick Plant Nurseries
Breast Cancer Now
Brownies
Busy Buttons Core Charity
Buttons & Bubbles CIC
C
Café Francais Windsor
Charity Excellence
Churches Together Windsor
Citizens Advice East Berkshire
Claremont Singers
Clewer and Dedworth Together CIC
Clewer Leisure Painters
Clewer Scout & Guide Group
Community Matters - RB Radio
Community Calm
Craft Co-op Maidenhead
D
Dementia Care Advisors
Disconnected Bodies
Driven Forward Community Fridge
E
East Berkshire MS Group
Electric Eels Swimming & Synchro Club
Eco Action for Windsor & Maidenhead
Elizabeth House Cookham (RBWM)
F
Fairtrade Steering Group (RBWM)
Fibromyalgia Support Group
Foodshare Maidenhead
Friends In Need - MIND in (East) Berkshire
Friends of Eton Wick School
Friends of the Windsor & Royal Borough Museum
Friends of Windsor Music (Windsor Learning Partnership)
Friends of Maidenhead Waterways
G
Game Masters of Windsor
Grace Church Windsor
Green Skills Library
H
Home Park Lawn Tennis Club
I
(none)
J
(none
K
Kerith Community Church (REVIVE)
King George VI Day Centre
L
(none)
M
Maidenhead & District Stroke Club
Maidenhead & Taplow Sea Cadets
Maidenhead Choral Society
Maidenhead Civic Society
Maidenhead Community Book Festival CIC
Maidenhead Community Centre
Maidenhead Community Watch Association
Maidenhead Girlguiding
Maidenhead Heritage Centre
Maidenhead Mencap
Maidenhead Men in Sheds
Maidenhead Operatic Society
Maidenhead Rotaract
Maidenhead Scouts
Maidenhead u3a
Maidenhead Veg Growers & Seed Swap
Maidenhead Women's Group for European Friendship
Maidenhead Women's Institute
Men's Matters
N
Nature's Haven
New Windsor Community Association
O
Oakley Green, Fifield & District Community Association
OPTALIS Community Lives Services
P
People to Places
Prince Phillip Trust Fund
Pub & Pastries Senior Social
Q
(none)
R
Rotary Club of Windsor St George
Rotary in Maidenhead
Royal Collection Trust
Royal Harmonics Sequela Foundation
S
Short Mat Bowls Club
Signature A Capella Singers
Soroptorist International of Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead
Swan Lifeline
T
Thames Hospice
Thames Valley & Great Omnibus Trust
Thames Valley Positive Support
The Autism Group
The Baby Bank
The Brett Foundation
The Dash Charity
The Green Room Foundation
The Kevin Cruise Foundation
The Lions Club of Maidenhead
The Maidenhead Men's Group
The Swan (Friends of The Swan)
The WellSpring
The Windsor Boys' School Boat Club
The Windsor and Eton Society
Trevelyan Middle School PTA
U
(none)
V
(none)
W
Well Windsor
Wellbeing Support Service - Maidenhead United Community Trust
Wild Windsor
Windsor & Eton Football Club (CIC)
Windsor & Eton Rotary Club
Windsor & Eton Sea Cadets
Windsor & Maidenhead Community Forum (WAMCF)
Windsor & Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra
Windsor & Slough Chrysanthemum, Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society
Windsor, Ascot & Maidenhead Community Land Trust
Windsor Baptist Church / Tree House Café
Windsor Community Orchestra
Windsor Cycle Hub
Windsor Horse Rangers
Windsor Humanists
Windsor Lions Club
Windsor Local History Group
Windsor Methodist Church
Windsor Newbies Social Group
Windsor Repair Café
Windsor Social Out & About Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Talking Newspaper
Windsor Theatre Guild
Windsor u3a Working for Wildlife (Maidenhead)
Working for Wildlife (Cookham)
X
(none)
Y
Younger People with Dementia
Z
(none)