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Every policy here is reviewed at least once a year, and safeguarding more often than that. If you can't find what you're after, email contact@cease.org.uk and we'll send it over.

How we protect children and adults at risk in everything we do, who's responsible, and what happens when someone raises a concern. Given the work we do and the people who come to us because of it, this is the one that matters most.
A short, plain guide to telling us something's wrong, what we'll do next, and who'll see it.
We interview survivors, young people and professionals as part of our research. This sets out how we take consent, how we handle what people tell us, and how somebody can withdraw at any point.
What we expect of ourselves, and of anyone working or volunteering with us.
What volunteers can expect from us, and what we ask in return.
What we collect, why, how long we keep it, who we share it with, and how to ask us to delete it. Written to be read rather than to cover us.
What gets set on your device when you visit, what each one does, and how to turn off the optional ones.
We don't take money from the sex industry, and we don't take money that comes with conditions attached to what our research is allowed to say. This is the policy that says so, and what we do when an offer isn't clear cut.
We're registered with the Fundraising Regulator and we follow the Code of Fundraising Practice. This is what that means in practice, and what to do if we fall short of it.
Filed with the Charity Commission every year, and published here.
We brief MPs, run petitions and ask people to write to their representatives. This sets out how we do that within the rules for charities, how we stay independent of any political party, and who signs off campaign material before it goes out.
Who they are, what they bring, and how they're appointed.
Our governing document, filing history and accounts, straight from the regulator.
The rules for using this site, and the limits of what we're responsible for.
If we've got something wrong, we'd like to know. Email contact@cease.org.uk with what happened.
Read complaints policy