The Sexual Abuse Risk Management Body of Knowledge
The working reference for the discipline of sexual abuse risk management — its definitions, principles, and practices, published openly. It is written for the people who do the work: what the terms mean, how a protection system runs, and what good practice looks like in operation.
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Behavior breach (12)
- ‘Would Like to See’ Behavior Breach (Incident Type)
- Accountability Escalation in Behavior Breach Response
- Behavior Expectation Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavior Requirement Breach (Incident Type)
- Breach Response Milestones (System Process Tracking)
- Escalation Trigger (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- How Quickly (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Introduction to Behavior Breach Response in Jigsaw
- Safeguarding Escalation (in Behavior Breach Response)
- What Action Is Taken (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Who Is Informed (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Who Responds (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
Behaviors (41)
- Adults in the same group, such as a team, as minors or vulnerable adults
- After hours and off-site activities
- Age Appropriateness
- Alcohol and drugs
- Behaviors (Control Type)
- Being alone with minors or vulnerable adults
- Bullying
- Clothing
- Confidentiality
- Displays of affection
- Electronic devices
- External enquiries
- Friendships
- Gifts
- Hazing
- Individual
- Language
- Locker Rooms
- Meetings
- Mentoring and Other Sanctioned One-to-One Programs
- Messaging, Social Media, and Images
- Non-retaliation
- Nondiscrimination
- One-to-one interactions between adults and minors
- Out-of-Program Contact
- Physical and psychological conditions
- Physical Restraint
- Positive Role Model
- Private Adult Areas
- Public restrooms
- Ratios of adults to minors and vulnerable adults
- Release to Parents and Guardians Only
- Serving Vulnerable Adults
- Sexual Behavior Between Young People
- The minimum number of adults
- Touching
- Travel and Lodging
- Use of Your Home
- Visitors
- Weapons
- Youth Leaders and Junior Staff
Change Management (1)
Controls (148)
- ‘Would Like to See’ Behavior Breach (Incident Type)
- “Safety Priority Conflict Commentary” Field
- Accountability Escalation in Behavior Breach Response
- Adaptation
- Adaptiveness
- Adults in the same group, such as a team, as minors or vulnerable adults
- After hours and off-site activities
- Age Appropriateness
- Alcohol and drugs
- Alignment
- Alignment with Objectives
- Allegation of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Anonymous Reporting
- Application Forms
- Audit (Control Type)
- Behavior Expectation Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavior Requirement Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavioral Alignment
- Behaviors (Control Type)
- Being alone with minors or vulnerable adults
- Breach Response Milestones (System Process Tracking)
- Budget (Control Type)
- Bullying
- Candidate Control
- Change Management (Control Type)
- Choosing Monitoring Timeframes
- Clarity
- Closure in Sexual Abuse Incident Response
- Clothing
- Communication & Support (Informing and Supporting Affected Individuals, Families, and Staff)
- Confidence
- Confidentiality
- Consistency
- Cooperation with Authorities (Law Enforcement and Child Protection Services)
- Coordinating Frontline Controls Across Departments
- Cultural and Contextual Fit
- Current Control
- Developing Supporting Controls
- Disclosure Categorization Criteria (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosure Response Milestones (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosures Relating to Sexual Abuse (Reputational Impact Incident Type)
- Displays of affection
- Electronic devices
- Escalation Pathways in Case Leadership Is Implicated or Compromised
- Escalation Trigger (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Event activities and resources
- Event attendees
- Event signage
- Event staffing
- Event venues and spaces
- Events (Control Type)
- External approvals for events
- External enquiries
- Facilitated Session Script: Core Incident Response Criteria
- Fit
- Fitness for Purpose
- Fitness for purpose criteria for event plans
- Friendships
- Frontline and Supporting Controls
- Gifts
- Governance & Oversight
- Hazing
- How Quickly (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- How the Jigsaw Team Builds Frontline Controls
- Immediate Safety Check (Initial Response Action)
- Incident Response (Control Type)
- Indications of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Individual
- Information and Communication
- Information-Sharing Principles in Incident Response
- Informing Stakeholders (Including Affected Individuals and Groups)
- Intake (Control Type)
- Introduction to Behavior Breach Response in Jigsaw
- Jigsaw Team Composition and Responsibilities
- Job Advertisement
- Language
- Learning from Incidents
- Learning from Responses
- Locker Rooms
- Media & Community Relations (External Communication in Incident Response)
- Media Scanning for Disclosures (Media and Community Monitoring)
- Meetings
- Mentoring and Other Sanctioned One-to-One Programs
- Messaging Principles
- Messaging, Social Media, and Images
- Minors and vulnerable adults at events
- Monitoring and Reviewing — the Difference
- Non-retaliation
- Nondiscrimination
- One-to-one interactions between adults and minors
- Operational and Universal Fit-for-Purpose Criteria
- Operational Criteria for Fit-for-Purpose Controls
- Operational Safety and Security
- Options for Managing Safety-Priority Conflicts
- Out-of-Program Contact
- Ownership
- Person Specification
- Physical and psychological conditions
- Physical Restraint
- Planning a special event
- Positive Role Model
- Post-event debrief
- Pre-Vetted and Retained Vendors for Incident Response
- Private Adult Areas
- Promotion
- Public restrooms
- Ratios of adults to minors and vulnerable adults
- Record Map
- Record Retention Periods & Legal Defensibility
- Record-Keeping (Control Type)
- Rejected Candidate Control
- Release to Parents and Guardians Only
- Reporting (Control Type)
- Resources and Capacity
- Response Planning (Who Responds, How Quickly, What Actions, Who Is Informed, Escalation Triggers)
- Retired Control
- Reviewing (Control Type)
- Role Description
- Safeguarding Escalation (in Behavior Breach Response)
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Safety Override Policy (Decision-Making Control)
- SAM Incident Type (Suspicion, Indication, Allegation)
- Security (Control Type)
- Selection Panels
- Sexual Abuse Incident Response Milestones
- Sexual Behavior Between Young People
- Stakeholder Consultations
- Supervision & Oversight
- Support for Individuals Affected by Sexual Abuse
- Suspicion of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- The 7 universal criteria vs the 8 ERM principles
- The Candidate Control Lifecycle
- The minimum number of adults
- Touching
- Training (Control Type)
- Travel and Lodging
- Universal Criteria for Fit-for-Purpose Controls
- Use of Your Home
- Vendor Coordination (External Partners in Sexual Abuse Response)
- Visitors
- Weapons
- What Action Is Taken (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- What Good Monitoring Looks Like
- What Makes a Control Drift
- When Monitoring Finds a Problem
- Who Is Informed (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Who Responds (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Youth Leaders and Junior Staff
Criteria (16)
- Adaptiveness
- Alignment
- Alignment with Objectives
- Behavioral Alignment
- Clarity
- Confidence
- Consistency
- Cultural and Contextual Fit
- Fit
- Fitness for Purpose
- Information and Communication
- Operational and Universal Fit-for-Purpose Criteria
- Operational Safety and Security
- Ownership
- Resources and Capacity
- Supervision & Oversight
Definitions (67)
- Adaptation
- Adult Group
- Baseline (The Floor)
- Board Report
- Candidate Control
- Child sexual Abuse
- Circumstance
- Claim
- Consequence
- Control
- Current Control
- Defensibility
- Emergence (GMR Modifier)
- ERM
- ERM’ness
- Existential SAM Threat
- Fitness for Purpose
- Flag Promotion
- Flagged Item
- Frontline and Supporting Controls
- Grooming: How Access Is Built
- Incident
- Judgment Support
- Just Culture
- Key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Minor
- Minor and/or Vulnerable Adult Group
- Missing Pieces (Orphans)
- Monitoring and Reviewing — the Difference
- Monitoring Coverage (GMR Dimension)
- One Journey, Four Doorways
- Opportunity
- Own, Systematize, Measure, Improve (OSMI)
- Piece
- Platform
- Promotion
- Reading Your GMR
- Recertification
- Rejected Candidate Control
- Responsiveness (GMR Dimension)
- Retired Control
- Review Coverage (GMR Dimension)
- Reviewing
- Rhythm (GMR Dimension)
- Risk
- Risk Management
- Risk Management System
- Safety-I and Safety-II
- SAM
- SAM Risk Information
- SAM Risk Management Information
- SAM Risk Management Performance Information
- SAM Risk Set
- Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
- Sexual Abuse and Molestation Insurance
- Sexual Abuse vs Sexual Assault
- Subjectivity
- Systems Thinking
- The Candidate Control Lifecycle
- The Flag Lifecycle
- The Four Principles of Safety Science
- The GMR Firewall — What Others See
- The Picture on the Box
- Threat
- Umbrella Organization
- Vulnerable Adult
- Young People in Their Own Protection
Disclosure (4)
DNA (3)
Environment Factors (2)
Events (11)
Glossaries (1)
How (146)
- ‘Would Like to See’ Behavior Breach (Incident Type)
- “Safety Priority Conflict Commentary” Field
- Accountability Escalation in Behavior Breach Response
- Adaptiveness
- Adults in the same group, such as a team, as minors or vulnerable adults
- After hours and off-site activities
- Age Appropriateness
- Alcohol and drugs
- Alignment
- Alignment with Objectives
- Allegation of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Anonymous Reporting
- Audit (Control Type)
- Background Checks & Refresh
- Behavior Expectation Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavior Requirement Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavioral Alignment
- Behaviors (Control Type)
- Being alone with minors or vulnerable adults
- Breach Response Milestones (System Process Tracking)
- Budget (Control Type)
- Bullying
- Change Management (Control Type)
- Choosing Monitoring Timeframes
- Clarity
- Closure in Sexual Abuse Incident Response
- Clothing
- Communication & Support (Informing and Supporting Affected Individuals, Families, and Staff)
- Confidence
- Confidentiality
- Consistency
- Cooperation with Authorities (Law Enforcement and Child Protection Services)
- Coordinating Frontline Controls Across Departments
- Cultural and Contextual Fit
- Developing Supporting Controls
- Disclosure Categorization Criteria (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosure Response Milestones (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosures Relating to Sexual Abuse (Reputational Impact Incident Type)
- Displays of affection
- Electronic devices
- Escalation Pathways in Case Leadership Is Implicated or Compromised
- Escalation Trigger (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Event activities and resources
- Event attendees
- Event signage
- Event staffing
- Event venues and spaces
- Events (Control Type)
- External approvals for events
- External enquiries
- Facilitated Session Script: Core Incident Response Criteria
- Fit
- Fitness for purpose criteria for event plans
- Formal Offers
- Friendships
- Gifts
- Hazing
- How Quickly (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- How the Jigsaw Team Builds Frontline Controls
- Immediate Safety Check (Initial Response Action)
- Incident Response (Control Type)
- Indications of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Individual
- Information and Communication
- Information-Sharing Principles in Incident Response
- Informing Stakeholders (Including Affected Individuals and Groups)
- Intake (Control Type)
- Interview
- Introduction to ‘How’
- Introduction to Behavior Breach Response in Jigsaw
- Jigsaw Team Composition and Responsibilities
- Job Advertisement
- Language
- Learning from Incidents
- Learning from Responses
- Locker Rooms
- Media & Community Relations (External Communication in Incident Response)
- Media Scanning for Disclosures (Media and Community Monitoring)
- Meetings
- Mentoring and Other Sanctioned One-to-One Programs
- Messaging Principles
- Messaging, Social Media, and Images
- Minors and vulnerable adults at events
- Monitoring (Control Type)
- Monitoring and Reviewing — the Difference
- Non-retaliation
- Nondiscrimination
- Onboarding / Induction
- One-to-one interactions between adults and minors
- Operational and Universal Fit-for-Purpose Criteria
- Operational Criteria for Fit-for-Purpose Controls
- Operational Safety and Security
- Options for Managing Safety-Priority Conflicts
- Out-of-Program Contact
- Ownership
- Person Specification
- Physical and psychological conditions
- Physical Restraint
- Planning a special event
- Positive Role Model
- Post-event debrief
- Pre-Vetted and Retained Vendors for Incident Response
- Private Adult Areas
- Public restrooms
- Ratios of adults to minors and vulnerable adults
- Record Map
- Record Retention Periods & Legal Defensibility
- Record-Keeping (Control Type)
- References
- Release to Parents and Guardians Only
- Reporting (Control Type)
- Resources and Capacity
- Response Planning (Who Responds, How Quickly, What Actions, Who Is Informed, Escalation Triggers)
- Reviewing (Control Type)
- Role Description
- Safeguarding Escalation (in Behavior Breach Response)
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Safety Override Policy (Decision-Making Control)
- SAM Incident Type (Suspicion, Indication, Allegation)
- Security (Control Type)
- Selection Panels
- Sexual Abuse Incident Response Milestones
- Sexual Behavior Between Young People
- Staff
- Stakeholder Consultations
- Supervision & Oversight
- Support for Individuals Affected by Sexual Abuse
- Suspicion of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- The 7 universal criteria vs the 8 ERM principles
- The minimum number of adults
- Touching
- Training (Control Type)
- Travel and Lodging
- Triaging Flagged Items
- Universal Criteria for Fit-for-Purpose Controls
- Use of Your Home
- Vendor Coordination (External Partners in Sexual Abuse Response)
- Visitors
- Weapons
- What Action Is Taken (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- What Good Monitoring Looks Like
- What Makes a Control Drift
- When Monitoring Finds a Problem
- Who Is Informed (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Who Responds (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Youth Leaders and Junior Staff
Incident Response (44)
- ‘Would Like to See’ Behavior Breach (Incident Type)
- Accountability Escalation in Behavior Breach Response
- Allegation of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Anonymous Reporting
- Behavior Expectation Breach (Incident Type)
- Behavior Requirement Breach (Incident Type)
- Breach Response Milestones (System Process Tracking)
- Closure in Sexual Abuse Incident Response
- Communication & Support (Informing and Supporting Affected Individuals, Families, and Staff)
- Cooperation with Authorities (Law Enforcement and Child Protection Services)
- Disclosure Categorization Criteria (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosure Response Milestones (Reputational Impact)
- Disclosures Relating to Sexual Abuse (Reputational Impact Incident Type)
- Escalation Pathways in Case Leadership Is Implicated or Compromised
- Escalation Trigger (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Facilitated Session Script: Core Incident Response Criteria
- From Flag to Incident Response
- How Quickly (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Immediate Safety Check (Initial Response Action)
- Incident Response (Control Type)
- Indications of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Information-Sharing Principles in Incident Response
- Informing Stakeholders (Including Affected Individuals and Groups)
- Introduction to Behavior Breach Response in Jigsaw
- Learning from Incidents
- Learning from Responses
- Media & Community Relations (External Communication in Incident Response)
- Media Scanning for Disclosures (Media and Community Monitoring)
- Messaging Principles
- Pre-Vetted and Retained Vendors for Incident Response
- Response Planning (Who Responds, How Quickly, What Actions, Who Is Informed, Escalation Triggers)
- Safeguarding Escalation (in Behavior Breach Response)
- SAM Incident Type (Suspicion, Indication, Allegation)
- Sexual Abuse Incident Response Milestones
- Support for Individuals Affected by Sexual Abuse
- Suspicion of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Suspicion of sexual abuse reporting checklist
- Suspicion of sexual abuse source examples
- Trauma-Informed Incident Response Principles
- Vendor Coordination (External Partners in Sexual Abuse Response)
- What Action Is Taken (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- When a Young Person Tells You
- Who Is Informed (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
- Who Responds (Behavior Breach Response Planning)
Insurance (8)
Intake (12)
Jigsaw Team (10)
- “Safety Priority Conflict Commentary” Field
- Choosing Monitoring Timeframes
- Coordinating Frontline Controls Across Departments
- Developing Supporting Controls
- Governance & Oversight
- Jigsaw Team Composition and Responsibilities
- Options for Managing Safety-Priority Conflicts
- Reviewing (Control Type)
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Safety Override Policy (Decision-Making Control)
Leadership (11)
- “Safety Priority Conflict Commentary” Field
- Conflicts of Interest
- Draft Board Jigsaw Briefing Note
- Governance & Oversight
- Options for Managing Safety-Priority Conflicts
- Reporting (Control Type)
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Safety Override Policy (Decision-Making Control)
- SAM Risk Manager
- The Board’s Role in SAM Risk Management
- The relationship between risk manager and risk group
Operating Model (6)
Possible sexual abuse (16)
- Allegation of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Closure in Sexual Abuse Incident Response
- Communication & Support (Informing and Supporting Affected Individuals, Families, and Staff)
- Cooperation with Authorities (Law Enforcement and Child Protection Services)
- Escalation Pathways in Case Leadership Is Implicated or Compromised
- Immediate Safety Check (Initial Response Action)
- Indications of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Learning from Incidents
- Learning from Responses
- Media & Community Relations (External Communication in Incident Response)
- Response Planning (Who Responds, How Quickly, What Actions, Who Is Informed, Escalation Triggers)
- SAM Incident Type (Suspicion, Indication, Allegation)
- Sexual Abuse Incident Response Milestones
- Support for Individuals Affected by Sexual Abuse
- Suspicion of Sexual Abuse (Incident Type)
- Vendor Coordination (External Partners in Sexual Abuse Response)
Record-keeping (2)
Risk (1)
Risk Management (44)
- Baseline (The Floor)
- Board Report
- Emergence (GMR Modifier)
- Flag Promotion
- Flagged Item
- Flags, Circumstances, and Claims
- From Flag to Incident Response
- Grooming: How Access Is Built
- Introduction to ‘How’
- Introduction to ‘Why’
- Jigsaw System Goals
- Judgment Support
- Just Culture
- Living Systems and Living SAM Risk Management
- Missing Pieces (Orphans)
- Monitoring Coverage (GMR Dimension)
- One Journey, Four Doorways
- Own, Systematize, Measure, Improve (OSMI)
- Piece
- Reading Your GMR
- Recertification
- Renewal Without Forms
- Responsiveness (GMR Dimension)
- Review Coverage (GMR Dimension)
- Rhythm (GMR Dimension)
- Safety-I and Safety-II
- SAM Risk Management Performance Information
- Serving Vulnerable Adults
- Sexual Abuse Training
- Talking with Parents and Families
- The Flag Lifecycle
- The Four Principles of Safety Science
- The GMR Firewall — What Others See
- The Picture on the Box
- The relationship between risk manager and risk group
- The Settling-In Periods
- Training Young People and Vulnerable Adults
- Triaging Flagged Items
- Umbrella Organization
- What Makes a Good Flag
- Why Flags Are Low-Stakes by Design
- Why Insurance Comes with Risk Management
- Young People in Their Own Protection
- Your Cover Milestones