Our organisational policies and guidelines

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• Modern slavery statement

  Read CAFOD's annual statement in relation to the Modern Slavery Act.

• Covid-19 risk assessment - Romero House

  The actions outlined in this risk assessment will help minimise the risk to CAFOD staff, volunteers, visitors and cleaners at our main office in London (Romero House) in response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

• The Global Disability Summit 2018: Charter for Change (363kb, pdf)

  Important progress has been made in the decade since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). But we must do more. We must strive for real change through the Convention’s implementation and the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals for persons with disabilities. Now is the time.

• Believe in change: A toolkit for the Catholic community to promote gender equality (19mb, pdf)
  Tanja Haque

  This toolkit helps Catholic organisations and leaders to feel better equipped to promote gender equality in their work using language, methods, values and theological reflections they can identify with. The toolkit uses partner case studies from across the world describing challenges and achievements of their gender work with a focus on rural women.

• Safeguarding policy

  We are committed to ensuring the application of the commitments within our safeguarding policy and related procedures and systems across the breadth of our work.

• CAFOD gender pay report (111kb, pdf)

  This gender pay report shows the difference between the average earnings of men and women at CAFOD in 2019. A report for 2020 will be produced before the end of the year.

• Ethical Recruitment (17kb, docx)

  Prompted by the research “Time to Move On: National perspectives on transforming surge capacity” undertaken by Andy Featherstone (which was commissioned by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Tearfund and Islamic Relief) and in light of our mutual commitments to the Charter4Change, CAFOD summarises our position on ethical recruitment in the following set of principles.

• Statement on our Theological Reference Group (75kb, pdf)

  A statement issued in response to enquiries about CAFOD’s Theological Reference Group

• CAFOD’s position re Open Letter to the Polish Bishops’ Conference (304kb, pdf)

  CAFOD’s position re Open Letter to the Polish Bishops’ Conference, April 2016

• CAFOD gender equality policy and strategy (3mb, pdf)

  CAFOD gender equality policy and strategy

• CAFOD environmental policy (205kb, pdf)

• Concerns and complaints

  CAFOD upholds certain values and high standards of organisational, professional and personal conduct. We recognise that sometimes our values and commitments might not be upheld to the standard expected. If this is the case, we want to be informed.

• CAFOD Open Information Policy (149kb, pdf)

• Dignity, diversity and equality policy (195kb, pdf)

• CAFOD Staff and volunteers code of behaviour (171kb, pdf)

  This Code of behaviour applies to all those associated with CAFOD, including paid staff, volunteers, board members, trustees and consultants. It covers values, corruption, personal conduct and child protection.