Trusted partners, one joined-up service.
I work with trusted specialists in training, checks and systems, so every part of your accreditation is backed by focused expertise.
Who do we work with?
Synergy Safeguarding works with a small number of specialist delivery partners, each chosen for one part of an accreditation bundle: safeguarding consultancy and audit, training, digital safety checks, safeguarding case management, microlearning, and the digital systems underneath them. Your bundle uses only the parts your organisation actually needs.
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Instincts Training
Instincts Training delivers practical, real-world personal safety, lone-worker, de-escalation and behavioural awareness training, built around the environments people actually work in, drawing on real frontline safety experience. For organisations and contractors whose teams work alone in homes and communities, this is genuinely important: it protects your people, not just the people they're supporting.
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Safeguard-Me
Working in partnership with Safeguard-Me, your organisation can evidence a safely managed workforce, with ID, DBS and reference checks all stored in one secure digital passport. Checks are consolidated in a single platform, so your workforce is checked, safe and ready. First passport free; from £19.99 per passport, with quotes available for larger organisations.
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Patronus
Patronus Safeguarding provides configurable safeguarding and case management software that helps organisations record concerns, manage cases and strengthen governance. Designed around your processes, the platform brings safeguarding and wider reporting into one secure, easy-to-use system.
- Safeguarding, concerns and whistleblowing management: safeguarding cases, allegations, low-level concerns, behaviour and code of conduct issues, complaints and whistleblowing.
- Health, safety, welfare and incident reporting: health and safety events, accidents, welfare and wellbeing concerns, and general organisational incidents.
- Risk, supervision and compliance oversight: risk assessments, safeguarding supervision, meeting management, auditing, self-assessment, and Board-level reporting and analytics.
- Multi-channel reporting and multi-organisation management: public, QR and SMS reporting routes, plus multi-team and multi-organisation coordination.
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QuikA Consulting
Meet your software goals with rapid app development and system integration, led by Jamie Thomson, a founder who has delivered technology for organisations including the Red Cross, Plan International, Barratt Homes and YMCA. QuikA uses the latest tech, including agentic AI, to deliver dramatically faster and at radically reduced cost. It connects the systems you already run to surface fresh insights, cut unnecessary costs and double down on what's actually driving value. For housing associations, that means knowing where time and budget are really going across every tenancy, every repair and every property. QuikA also builds custom projects from the ground up: native apps for tenants and field teams, and compliance training delivered through QuikAuthor.
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QuikAuthor Microlearning
Built for SMEs, time-pressured L&D teams, and anyone who wants to go "micro", QuikAuthor lets you create impactful digital training in minutes, with no experience needed. You can build it yourself, using super simple colour-by-number templates, or tap into its user-friendly AI tools to quickly convert documents, videos, policies and ideas into gamified courses. Branding is easy and output is optimised for mobile, tablet and desktop. The platform offers direct sharing and tracking, plus flexible export to SCORM 1.2 and 2004, so training built once can go wherever it needs to. Sign up online for your free account.
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RLB Safeguarding
RLB Safeguarding is a specialist consultancy and training company supporting organisations to move beyond compliance and build safer, stronger safeguarding cultures. Led by Managing Director Rachael Bishop, with over 21 years' safeguarding experience, RLB provides expert consultancy, accredited and bespoke training, safeguarding audits, supervision and strategic support across a wide range of sectors. As a strategic partner to Synergy Safeguarding, RLB brings extensive frontline and leadership experience across child and adult safeguarding, helping organisations translate legislation, guidance and safeguarding responsibilities into confident, effective practice. From strengthening governance and developing safeguarding leaders to building workforce confidence and improving organisational practice, RLB's focus is on safeguarding that works in the real world, protecting people of all ages, in all places. Experience. Excellence. Empathy.
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Armaris
Armaris is an official DBS provider offering Basic, Standard and Enhanced checks, processed directly through the platform and stored securely against each individual's profile. Checks are competitively priced at £29.99 for Basic and Standard and £59.99 for Enhanced, and all new clients receive three months' free access to the platform. The system also supports digital identity verification, overseas criminal record checks, barred list checks and automatic renewal tracking. Every action sits within a full timestamped audit trail, alongside right-to-work verification, volunteer vetting, references and wider recruitment compliance. Whether you are evidencing safety to funders, trustees, Boards, regulators or clients, Armaris brings everything into one secure, auditable place, so when you need to prove safeguarding in practice, the evidence is already there.
We may receive a commission from some of our partners if you go on to work with them. Partners are chosen on merit, and a commission never affects who we recommend or what we advise.
Common questions about our partners
Do I have to use your partners?
No. You are always free to use your own preferred provider instead of any partner we suggest, and it will not affect your accreditation or the rest of your bundle.
How are partners chosen?
A partner is recommended because they are the right fit for what your organisation needs, not because of any fee we may receive. The same partners are recommended regardless of the size of the engagement.
Do you receive a commission from your partners?
In some cases, yes. We may receive a referral fee from a partner if you go on to work with them. We are happy to tell you which of our recommendations involve a referral fee before you decide, and a commission never affects who we recommend or what we advise.
Read our full Conflicts of Interest Statement, or see how accreditation works for Community Organisations / Housing Providers / Contractors
Not sure which parts you need?
Every accreditation starts with a gap analysis, not a shopping list. Book a free Health Check and we will tell you what your organisation actually needs, and what it does not.