The purpose of this document is to provide procedures for dealing with reports of breach of CoST’s Safeguarding Policy, where the safeguarding violation is against staff or members of the public and is perpetrated by a CoST Board Member, CoST International Secretariat staff, a contractor (associated personnel) or sub-grantee (delivery partners).

In addition, it is expected that all CoST Members, specifically the host organisation staff and contractors, and Multi-Stakeholder Group Members, will consider developing a procedure for their CoST programme based on this procedure where national and institutional regulations, policies and requirements are considered inadequate.