Need safeguarding advice or support?
Find practical safeguarding guidance, get help with a specific professional concern, or understand where to turn when further safeguarding action may be required.
Find the right support when you need it.
Use the Safeguarding Knowledge Hub for general guidance. If you are dealing with a specific concern, complaint or professional issue, contact the DIA Helpdesk.
Safeguarding Knowledge Hub
Find practical answers on safeguarding concerns, professional boundaries, disclosures, reporting and professional practice.
DIA Helpdesk
Talk to the DIA team about a specific safeguarding concern, complaint, allegation or professional conduct issue.
Visit the DIA HelpdeskOngoing professional advice and representation is included as part of your membership.
You can still contact us for a free initial advisory call.
Know when advice can wait and when action cannot.
The DIA Helpdesk can support you with professional advice, but it should never delay urgent safeguarding action. What you do next depends on the level of concern and whether someone may be at immediate risk.
Call 999
If you believe someone is in immediate danger or there is an emergency requiring police, ambulance or other emergency assistance, contact the emergency services straight away.
Call 999Seek appropriate safeguarding support
If someone may be at risk but there is no immediate emergency, you may need to contact the relevant local safeguarding service, police or other appropriate authority depending on the circumstances.
Talk to the DIA Helpdesk
If you need help understanding your professional responsibilities, a complaint, boundaries or what steps may be appropriate, DIA can help you think through the situation.
Contact the Helpdesk
Training prepares you. DIA membership supports you.
Safeguarding is one part of your wider professional responsibility. DIA membership gives Driver and Rider Trainers professional protection, expert support, industry updates and ongoing development throughout their career.