Statements of purpose
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury. We work with children and young people from across the UK, both from our specialist centre in Tadworth, Surrey and in communities around the country.
Our vision is for all children with brain injury to have the opportunity to live the best life possible.
Click on the links below to download a Statement of Purpose:
Reporting and Learning from Near Misses, Incidents and Patient Safety Events Policy and Procedure Including Duty of Candour
The purpose of this document is to ensure that the Children’s Trust continually learns from events, incidents and near misses in an open and transparent culture. As an NHS commissioned service, the Trust will manage patient safety incidents and near misses in line with the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and will be compliant with requirements for the legal Duty of Candour.
Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
At The Children's Trust, our dedication to delivering outstanding care and support for children with brain injuries and their families is at the heart of everything we do. Acknowledging that healthcare is ever evolving, The Children's Trust embraces a proactive stance on patient safety. Our PSIRF policy has been developed to address the complexities of patient care, ensuring a structured response to incidents with a focus on systemic improvement and accountability.
Complaints Policy
The Children’s Trust is committed to providing consistently high standards of service. All complaints must be handled thoroughly without delay and with the aim of satisfying the complainant whilst being fair and open with those involved. There is a need to view complaints positively as a valuable contribution to improving services. The Children’s Trust is committed to identifying lessons learnt so services can be improved.
Complaints Policy & Procedure for Prize Led Fundraising (Weekly Lottery, Raffle) Policy and SOP
The purpose and objective of this policy and procedure is to set out how The Children's Trust will manage any complaint we receive in relation to our lottery, raffle or prize-led fundraising activity, whether directly to us, to a volunteer, a third-party acting on our behalf, or to a regulator.
Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy
The Children’s Trust believes that it is always unacceptable for a child or young person to experience abuse of any kind and recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and young people using services, by a commitment to practice which protects them.
Disciplinary Policy and Procedure
This policy, combined with job descriptions, induction and training processes, policies and procedures, ensure that staff are made aware of the expected standards of conduct and work performance, and that they are supported in this.
Whistleblowing Policy
The Children’s Trust is committed to the highest possible standards of openness and accountability and we encourage anyone with serious concerns about any aspects of our work to bring these issues to our attention. This policy explains our procedures.
Data Protection Policy
This policy describes the principles to be applied in relation to the collection, handling, processing, transferring or storing of personal data in the course of TCT’s operational activities. It’s main objective being to ensure organisational-wide compliance with all relevant data protection legislation.
Gender Pay Gap report
Each year we analyse the pay gap between our female and male employees, reporting on what we are doing to close any gaps identified.
Download the Gender Pay Gap report
Annual Quality Account
As a healthcare provider that receives funding from NHS England Specialist Commissioning, The Children’s Trust is required to produce a Quality Account to inform the public about the quality of the services it provides.
We welcome this opportunity to show the work we are doing to improve our services, what we do well, and to be held to account.
Download the Annual Quality Account 2024-2025
