Below is a list of all policies at Childlight.
Governance and Foundations
Contracts and Collaboration Guidelines: These guidelines outline how Childlight is structured, governed, and overseen. The guidelines explain our decision-making processes, roles, responsibilities, and controls that ensure accountability, transparency, and effective organisational stewardship.
Contracts and Collaboration Guidelines: These guidelines provide guidance for establishing and managing contracts, partnerships, and research collaborations. The guidelines explain the steps, approvals, and documentation required to ensure agreements are fair, compliant, and aligned with Childlight’s mission.
Document Management Policy: This policy explains how Childlight creates, stores, maintains, and retires documents. It sets the standards for version control, accessibility, and secure handling of organisational information.
Quality Assurance and Improvement Policy: This policy sets out Childlight’s framework for monitoring compliance and improving the quality of our processes, research, and outputs. It describes how we conduct reviews, identify gaps, and embed continuous improvement.
Ethics and Conduct
Research Ethics Policy: This policy sets out the role and processes of the Childlight Research Ethics Sub Committee. It explains how to apply for and obtain ethical approval for different project types, both at initiation and for amendments.
Researcher Conflict of Interest Guidance: This guide explains how researchers should identify, declare, and manage any conflicts of interest. It supports transparency and ensures that decisions and research outputs remain unbiased and trustworthy.
Safeguarding and Disclosure Policy: This policy describes Childlight’s approach to protecting children, young people, and adults at risk. It explains how safeguarding concerns are identified, reported, and managed.
Research Quality and Processes
Research Quality and Integrity Policy: This policy describes Childlight’s commitment to high-quality, rigorous, and reproducible research. It outlines principles and practices that promote integrity, robustness, and sets objectives for continuous improvement across all projects.
Research Protocol Development and Registration Policy: This policy provides guidance for developing research protocols and registering studies. It ensures our projects are planned transparently, follow good research practice, and meet funder and ethics requirements.
Research Project Set-up and Initiation Policy: This policy explains the steps required to begin a research project at Childlight. It covers governance checks, documentation, approvals, and minimum standards to ensure projects start in a controlled and compliant way.
Research Project Closure Guidelines: These guidelines outline how research projects should be formally closed. The guidelines cover final checks, documentation, dissemination, and long-term storage of research materials and data.
Data Management Policy: This policy provides guidance on how project data is collected, stored, accessed, shared, and archived. It ensures that data is handled securely, ethically, and in line with University and legal requirements.
Outputs and Impact
Pathways to Impact Guidelines: These guidelines explain how Childlight plans and evidences the real-world impact of our research. They provide guidance on designing, capturing, and communicating the changes our work contributes to.
Publication Guidelines: These guidelines outline Childlight’s expectations for authorship, review, and dissemination of research outputs. They support transparent, responsible publishing and ensures findings are communicated accurately and ethically.