Trustee with Safeguarding experience - Volunteer, Greater London

We are seeking a Trustee with safeguarding expertise to join our Board and Charity, helping protect young people affected by exploitation and serious harm, strengthening our safeguarding culture and compliance, and enabling Streets of Growth to grow safely and with impact across East London.

What difference will you make?

Safeguarding is central to everything we do. Your expertise will help Streets of Growth maintain a strong safeguarding culture as we deliver and expand our model in supporting young people to significantly reduce harm and re‑engage with education, employment and training.

A trustee joining us now would be coming at point to take the Charity forward to strengthen and support our senior team, bringing strategic insight, constructive challenge, and strong governance as we continue to innovate and deepen our impact.

You will be joining a progressive Board alongside a dynamic, dedicated senior and front‑line team, and be part of a wider committed to building a safer, fairer society in which young people are not left behind by the changes happening around them.

Your expertise will steer the Charity to ensure

• Safer outcomes for young people improved oversight of contextual safeguarding risks (exploitation, extra‑familial harm and youth violence), helping us strengthen protective factors and reduce risk of significant harm.
• Stronger governance and compliance Board‑level assurance that our policies, reporting and decision‑making meet safeguarding expectations and build public trust.
• Better support for staff and partners clearer escalation routes, learning from incidents, and confident multi‑agency practice—so our frontline teams can work consistently and safely.
• Growth with integrity as we pursue ambitious 2026–2030 goals (strengthening delivery and evidence, diversifying income, and expanding the model), you’ll help ensure safeguarding keeps pace—protecting quality while enabling scale.
• Amplifying youth voice a trustee who can keep lived experience at the centre, ensuring services and partnerships reflect what young people need to stay safe and progress.

What are we looking for? Qualities And Experience

• Safeguarding expertise strong working knowledge of safeguarding children/young people.
• Strategic governance mindset able to operate at Board level, providing scrutiny, assurance and constructive challenge at a strategic and advisory level.
• Sound judgement and integrity confident handling sensitive risk and incident matters.
• Policy and compliance capability experience of reviewing/strengthening safeguarding policies and procedures, comfortable with regulatory expectations and good practice.
• Youth-centred approach commitment to equity, inclusion and amplifying youth voice, ensuring decisions reflect young people’s rights and lived realities.
• Collaborative style able to build trusted relationships with the Chair, CEO and safeguarding leads, and work effectively as part of a diverse Board.

Desirable

• Experience in one or more relevant sectors (e.g., youth services, social care, education, community safety, criminal justice, health or violence reduction).
• Trustee/non‑executive experience, or confidence contributing to governance, risk and assurance processes.
• Understanding of the East London context and the systems young people navigate locally.
• Experience of trauma‑informed practice and/or designing services for young people facing complex harm.

Lived Experience

We welcome applications from people with lived experience that connects to our mission (for example, experience of the realities facing young people and communities affected by exploitation, violence, poverty or systemic disadvantage). If you have lived experience you want to draw on in the role, we will support you to do so safely and appropriately.

Hybrid What will you be doing?

Streets of Growth supports young people aged 15–21 who are experiencing criminal harm and exploitation outside the home. As we grow our harm‑reduction and employability model, we’re seeking a Trustee with safeguarding experience to provide strategic oversight, robust challenge and steady leadership, helping us protect young people, support staff, and scale safely.

Key Lead areas would be

• Champion safeguarding at Board level, ensuring it is embedded in strategy, risk management and decision‑making.
• Provide scrutiny and constructive challenge on safeguarding practice, contextual safeguarding risk, and serious incident response.
• Overview and strengthen safeguarding policies and procedures
• Help us amplify youth voice, so organisational choices, partnerships and external engagement reflect the lived realities and rights of the young people we serve.