At Synergy Safeguarding, our mission is to create safer workforces and safer communities by equipping organisations and contractors with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities while creating social value and delivering on ESG commitments.
Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility
About us
Synergy Safeguarding provides specialist safeguarding and domestic abuse consultancy, training, bespoke support, with 3 levels of accreditation for organisations and contractors who work in communities and homes - to proudly demonstrate they are ‘Synergy Safe’ accredited in:
🟢 Protecting vulnerable individuals
🟣 Strengthening workforce safety and wellbeing
🟢 Enhancing trust, building resilience, and actively mitigating risks
Organisations and contractors play a significant part in safeguarding as they are well placed to identify potential risks and be proactive in the prevention of abuse and neglect.
Our mission is to create safer workforces and communities by fostering a culture of vigilance and responsibility in organisations and contractors to respond to safeguarding, ensuring legislative compliance.
Aligning safeguarding excellence with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments, ensuring organisations contribute meaningfully to safer communities, whilst creating Social Value.
OUR VALUES:
🟢Integrity - Building trust through openness and accountability, safeguarding everyone who lives and works in communities and homes.
🟣Impact - Delivering meaningful measurable change in safeguarding practice - achieving results that strengthen safer workforces and create safer communities.
🟢Inclusion - Effective safeguarding enhanced by diverse perspectives and voices. We create opportunities where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute to safeguarding excellence.
Working in ‘Synergy’ together, we can promote safeguarding and create safer environments for all.
Find out more about our:
Benefits to being a Synergy Safe accredited organisation
Safeguard-Me for your digital checks and passports
Patronus for your trusted digital safeguarding system
Instincts Training award winning bespoke personal safety and behaviour training
Big Picture Training for your CPD accredited e-learning training needs.
Partnerships
Instincts Training
Instincts Training works in partnership with Synergy Safeguarding to deliver practical, real‑world personal safety, lone‑worker, de‑escalation, and behavioural awareness training. Their programmes are built around the environments people actually work and learn in, drawing on decades of behavioural psychology and frontline safety experience.
Instincts specialises in helping individuals recognise risk earlier, stay calm under pressure, and respond confidently in challenging situations.
Organisations choose Instincts for their tailored, impactful approach that goes beyond compliance — building resilience, instinctive decision‑making, and safer outcomes across workplaces and communities. You can find out more here.
Safer Workforce’s
Working in partnership with Safeguard-Me, organisations and contractors can evidence they are safely managing their workforce to work in communities and homes through documentation ID / DBS / referencing checks, which are stored in a digital app passport.
Prices are £19.99 per passport available to buy here (with the first one free). Quotes can be provided for larger organisations.
Workforce safeguarding checks are consolidated in one secure platform - so your workforce is Checked.Safe.Ready.
Safer Safeguarding Systems
Patronus is Synergy Safeguarding’s trusted digital record companion where all of your safeguarding needs are streamlined and secure.
Patronus is the most flexible, intuitive and comprehensive case management and safeguarding platform available.
Built by industry professionals to maintain the highest safeguarding standards— it’s safeguarding made simpler, smarter, and more supportive
For all your safeguarding system needs and to book a call visit Patronus.
Safeguarding Essentials E-learning
Working in partnership with Big Picture Training to deliver our Safeguarding Essentials e-learning, which is CPD accredited and available to buy here.
Prices start from £18.99 - £24.99 - a small investment for a lasting social impact.
Our safeguarding e-learning helps to know what to do if you have a safeguarding concern, hold difficult conversations, and protect those at risk.
Safeguarding Consultancy Solutions
Synergy Safeguarding Solutions for your business and contractors
🟢 Bespoke Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse Training – Tailored to the needs of organisations and contractors - how to embed and put into practice.
🟣 Workforce Safety – Digital checks and documents in partnership with the Safeguard-Me passport app.
🟢 Policy Development – Effective Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse Policies, Procedures, Statements, Frameworks, and Toolkits. We also have a specialist consultant who can support with updating HR Policies as required.
🟣 GDPR Compliance – Clear Safeguarding data protection requirements.
🟢 Resourcing – Support with effective resourcing for all your safeguarding needs including Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs).
🟣 Workforce Wellbeing – Ensuring organisations and contractors have built in adequate and appropriate support. Including bespoke Personal Safety training in partnership with Instincts Training
Synergy Safeguarding provides specialist consultancy in the following areas:
🟢 Recording and Reporting Processes – work with you to design clear, structured safeguarding processes in partnership with Patronus.
🟣 Monitoring & Evidence – support to review systems to ensure safeguarding compliance and implementing improvements.
🟢 Safeguarding & Domestic abuse Audits/ Health Check / Gaps analysis – Strengthening safeguarding & domestic abuse practices and industry standards.
🟣 Governance & Risk – Assurance vs. Reassurance to reduce risk & reputational damage.
🟢 Social Value Measurement / ESG commitments – Demonstrating positive impact.
🟣 Modern Slavery Compliance – Contractors with £36M+ turnover must publish an effective Modern Slavery statement (Modern Slavery Act 2015).
Accreditations
Synergy Safeguarding offers 3 levels of accreditation for organisations and contractors to demonstrate that they are Synergy Safe
Level 1 accreditation:
Safeguarding Essentials
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For organisations and contractors who may not work directly with vulnerable individuals in communities and homes, but who wish to have an awareness of safeguarding & domestic abuse, and aspire to evidence that they operate as a safe contractor with a safe workforce and supply chain.
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Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse e-learning.
DBS (as appropriate) - Digital safety checks - Safeguard-Me app.
Modern Slavery statement (if applicable).
Safeguarding & Domestic abuse support as required.
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Accreditation costs between £1K - £5K depending on the size of the organisation.
The e-learning costs, ‘Safeguard-Me’ app, and DBS are additional depending on requirements and how many users.
Additional consultancy costs can be added to create any bespoke package that may benefit your organisation and workforce.
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Upon successful accreditation, the following will be awarded:
Certificate for all learners
Certification of completed Synergy Safe level 1 accreditation.
Synergy Safe level 1 Safeguarding Essentials logo
Support to write a bespoke statement for your website and any other promotional material.
Your accreditation will be reviewed annually.
The Accreditation Synergy Safe Logo and certification are licensed for use solely during the active subscription period. Upon expiration, cancellation, or non-renewal, all rights to use the logo and certification are immediately revoked.
Level 2 accreditation:
Safeguarding Advanced
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For organisations and contractors that work in communities and homes and therefore may come into contact with vulnerable adults and / or children.
This includes contractors who are procured to carry out activities on behalf of another business.
The organisation or contractor is required to be compliant, competent, and confident in Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse processes.
Contractors are to understand the importance of identifying safeguarding & domestic abuse concerns and have accountability to report and pass on concerns.
The organisation or contractors is able to evidence they operate with a safe workforce and supply chain.
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Safeguarding & domestic abuse training tailored as required.
DBS (as appropriate) / Digital staff safety checks - Safeguard-Me app.
Designated Safeguarding lead appointed (where appropriate) - support and supervision options available as required.
Support with writing policies, procedures, and statements (inc Modern Slavery). Toolkits guidance for ease of referencing.
Safeguarding audits / health checks / gaps analysis including guidance on monitoring concerns raised
Support to review Social Value contribution and ESG commitments to evidence positive impact.
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Accreditation costs between £3K - £9K depending on the scope of accreditation requirements and size of the organisation.
The training costs and ‘Safeguard-me’ app, and DBS checks are additional depending on requirements and how many users.
Additional consultancy costs can be added to create any bespoke package that may benefit your business and workforce.
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Upon successful accreditation. the following will be awarded:
Certificate for all learners
Certification of completed Synergy Safe level 2 accreditation.
Synergy Safe level 2 Safeguarding Advanced logo
Support to write a bespoke statement for your website and any other promotional material.
Your accreditation will be reviewed annually.
The Accreditation Synergy Safe Logo and certification are licensed for use solely during the active subscription period. Upon expiration, cancellation, or non-renewal, all rights to use the logo and certification are immediately revoked.all learners will receive CPD training certificates.
Level 3 accreditation:
Safeguarding Excellence
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Organisations and contractors who work in homes and communities where they are likely to come into regular contact with vulnerable adults and / or children. Therefore, the workforce will need to be extra vigilant requiring more in depth knowledge of Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse procedures and practices.
For example - supported housing, temporary accommodation, hostels, older person or care schemes.
Organisations and contractors are able to demonstrate they operate with a safe workforce and supply chain.
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In depth training tailored specific to the requirements of the learners.
Digital staff safety checks inc DBS compliance - Safeguard-me app
Designated Safeguarding lead(s) appointed and mentoring supervision options available
Support with writing policies, procedures, statements (inc Modern Slavery statement), frameworks. Toolkits. guidance for easy referencing.
Support in evidencing compliance with legislative requirements.
Safeguarding audits / health checks / gap analysis including monitoring guidance for concerns raised
Support to review Social Value measures and ESG commitments to evidence positive impact.
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Accreditation costs between £5K - £15K depending on the scope of accreditation requirements and size of the organisation.
The training costs and ‘Safeguard-me’ app, and DBS checks are additional depending on requirements and how many users.
Additional consultancy costs can be added to create any bespoke package that may benefit your business and workforce.
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Upon successful accreditation the following will be awarded:
Certificates for all learners.
Certification of completed Synergy Safe level accreditation.
Synergy Safe level 3 Safeguarding Excellence logo
Support to write a bespoke statement for your website along any other promotional material.
Your accreditation will be reviewed annually.
The Accreditation Synergy Safe Logo and certification are licensed for use solely during the active subscription period. Upon expiration, cancellation, or non-renewal, all rights to use the logo and certification are immediately revoked.
Make a difference - be Synergy Safe!
As a Synergy Safe organisation or contractor, here are some of the benefits you can be proud of:
🟢 A sustainable safeguarding culture.
🟣 Risk Mitigation - Safer protected workforces and communities - reducing risks and improving safety for everyone.
🟢 Legislative compliance leading to saved lives and improved quality of life.
🟣 Creating Social Value and delivering on ESG commitments.
🟢 Competitive advantage - potential stronger procurement opportunities for accredited organisations and contractors.
🟣 Enhanced reputation and trust with key stakeholders.
🟢 Strengthened community relationships, building resilience and reducing inequalities.
Meet the Founder
Synergy Safeguarding is founded and owned by Hazel O’Halloran with over 25 years working with housing associations, local authorities, social care, and charities, from frontline to the Board. Hazel holds significant experience in implementing and embedding safeguarding practices across a range of organisations.
Previously trained as a Specialist Practitioner in Safeguarding Adults whilst working in Adult Social Care, and a Train the Trainer for both children and adults safeguarding.
With a strong background in homelessness, safeguarding & domestic abuse, and community investment, Hazel has a deep understanding of the challenges facing vulnerable people. As an ambassador for social change, she has been involved in commissioning safeguarding audits, managing key risk indicators and governance, enhancing approaches to safeguarding, including learning and development to create a greater understanding of the importance of safeguarding and accountability held by all.
Her efforts for raising awareness of safeguarding & domestic abuse were formally recognised as a winner at the National Housing Awards for ‘Campaign of the Year’.
Drawing on extensive sector experience, Hazel is honoured to speak at various conferences, webinars, podcasts, and has contributed to academia by delivering modules for a university, sharing sector insights and best practice.
Her experience also extends to being a Non-Executive Director at Brighter Futures housing association, Facilitator for the Board Development Agency, Associate for Safeguarding Associates For Excellence (SAFE), as well as voluntary positions as a WISH (Women in Social Housing) Board member, and a mentor for the Housing Diversity Network (HDN).
Hazel is privileged to be able to be bring together both professional expertise and personal lived experience to shape safeguarding solutions that are not only strategic and compliant but deeply empathetic and attuned to real life challenges.
Please reach out if you would like to discuss consultancy options or any other opportunities - hazel@synergysafeguarding.co.uk
Synergy Safeguarding is very much looking forward to being able to support your organisations and workforces.
Hazel O’Halloran
Founder
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