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Course 4 · Protect · Module 10

Legal, Compliance, Policies & Risk

Bring together your legal and compliance framework. Map your legal duties, work out which policies and controls your organisation actually needs given its form, activities, geography, size, funding and risk profile, write procedures people can follow, keep policies alive, and manage risk with clear owners and escalation. This module supports planning; legal duties depend on your jurisdiction, so obtain qualified local advice.

Part of Course 4 · Protect · US$29, or all five courses for US$109.

You create: Compliance & Risk Pack

14 lessons and reviews · about 4.6 hours including exercises.

Every lesson has a short video, the written explanation with examples, a guided exercise that saves into your organisation pack, and a sheet in the Legal, Compliance, Policies & Risk workbook.

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Module introduction

Your lesson sequence

  1. Legal & compliance
  2. 10.1Your legal and regulatory mapUnderstand · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Legal map
  3. 10.2Working out which policies you actually needDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Policy needs · Tool: Policy Management
  4. 10.3Contracts and agreementsImplement · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Contracts register
  5. Policies & procedures
  6. 10.4Core policies: conduct, conflicts and anti-fraudDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Policies · Tool: Policy Management
  7. 10.5SafeguardingDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Safeguarding
  8. 10.6Data protection and privacyDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Data inventory
  9. 10.7Whistleblowing, complaints and incident reportingImplement · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Reporting channels
  10. 10.8HR and workplace policiesDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: HR policies
  11. 10.9Writing usable proceduresImplement · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Procedures
  12. 10.10Policy management and reviewManage · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Policies · Tool: Policy Management, Onboarding & Staff Compliance
  13. Risk management
  14. 10.11Identifying and assessing riskUnderstand · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Risks · Tool: Issue & Risk Management
  15. 10.12Risk registers, ownership, mitigation and escalationImplement · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Risks · Tool: Issue & Risk Management
  16. 10.13Monitoring and reviewing riskReview · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Risks · Tool: Issue & Risk Management
  17. 10.14Your Compliance & Risk PackModule review and output
Excel

Legal, Compliance, Policies & Risk workbook

Module-10-Legal-Compliance-Policies-Risk.xlsx · included with the course. Sheets: Legal map, Policy needs, Contracts register, Policies, Safeguarding, Data inventory, Reporting channels, HR policies, Procedures, Risks.

Sheets named after a tool use that tool’s columns, so the workbook can be imported into the Impact Tools without retyping. The file is being prepared and will be available to course purchasers.

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Tools for this module

Each tool is the live version of work you draft in this module. They are optional; the course and its Excel workbook are complete on their own.

  • Policy Management — Track policy owners, review dates and approval status. Lessons 10.2, 10.4, 10.10
  • Onboarding & Staff Compliance — Create role-based onboarding plans, guide a first-week buddy and track training, policy acknowledgements and renewals. Lessons 10.10
  • Issue & Risk Management — Connect issues, risks, owners and actions in one management workspace. Lessons 10.11, 10.12, 10.13