What happens when a charity or club is deliberately neglectful, or reckless, in executing on its vetting procedures? What is ‘wilful neglect’? How does it impact on volunteering? Find out here in Part 6 of our series on Section 28 liability under the Irish vetting legislation.In …Read More
Policies and Procedures
Looking The Other Way – Connivance and Section 28 Liability
What is connivance? How does a court find that someone ‘connived’ in an offence? How is it relevant to charities and clubs? Learn how, in this, Part 5, of our review of Section 28 of the vetting legislation.In our most recent essay, Part 4 of our …Read More
Handle That Vetting Disclosure with Care: 3 New Criminal Offences
We’re looking this week at the central importance of vetting in the policing and security of the Irish state; at three new criminal offences around the mishandling and falsification of vetting disclosures; and we look at the criminal penalties for breaches of the legislation.Section 26 of …Read More
Competing Declarations in the Recruitment of Volunteers
In this essay we’re going to look at the role played by two different types of ‘declarations’ in your volunteer recruitment process.We’re going to have a think about what we can learn from two leading historical documents (and visions) and what they can teach us in …Read More
Rescuing Your Volunteer Recruitment Process the JKF-Way: Part 3: Rescue The Mission & Protect Those In Your Care
The coconut, on which JFK etched his SOS message, that took pride of place on JFK’s Presidential desk in the White House. Credti: JFK Presidential Library & Museum
Join us in the final Part of our 3 Part series of essays on what modern day managers …Read More
Rescuing Your Volunteer Recruitment Process, the JFK-Way: Part 2: Navigating Your Team’s Way to Safety
In Part 1: Dangerous Waters: Assessing Your Situation Today of this 3-part series of essays on ‘Rescuing Your Volunteer Recruitment Process, the JFK-Way’, we looked at how the then Lieutenant John F Kennedy had dealt expertly with a perilous situation when his patrol boat had been …Read More
Rescuing your Volunteer Recruitment Process the JFK-way: Part 1: Dangerous waters: assessing your situation today
PC 96 Tulagi, Solomon Islands. PT Boat Officers (L-R) James (“Jim”) Reed, John F. (“Jack”) Kennedy, George (“Barney”) Ross [rear], and Paul (“Red”) Fay, circa 1943. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
At dead of night on 1st August 1943, …Read More
How to rescue your volunteer recruitment process, inspired by Lieutenant John F Kennedy
Credit: JFK Presidential Library & Museum
In this essay we look at what, as volunteer managers, we can learn from one of the defining moments in the life of the 20th century’s greatest leaders, John F Kennedy. We look at how the then young Lieutenant Kennedy …Read More
