• Before your shift starts
  • Starting your deployment
  • Preparing your vehicle
  • En route and arriving
  • Providing assistance
  • Identifying people's needs
  • Providing cash assistance
  • Supporting an anti-human trafficking reception centre
  • Leaving and post-deployment
  • Volunteer stand-down report

Volunteer Playbook

How to respond safely and effectively to an emergency

This refresher guidance is for volunteers and staff to use before or during deployment.

It covers the essential tasks and techniques for deploying and successfully supporting service users and each other.

  • Before your shift starts ›
  • Starting your deployment ›
  • Preparing your vehicle ›
  • En route and arriving ›
  • Providing assistance ›
  • Identifying people's needs ›
  • Providing cash assistance ›
  • Supporting an anti-human trafficking reception centre ›
  • Leaving and post-deployment ›
  • Volunteer stand-down report ›