Legislation, organisational policies and procedures, and codes of ethics and conduct all provide a framework in which to operate appropriately as a mentor. These can be split into the following types:
- Legislation – health and safety, data protection, safeguarding, equality and diversity
- Codes of conduct – includes staff/employee codes of conduct, and codes of conduct and ethics used by professional mentoring organisations and institutes
- Policies and procedures – includes company policies on equality, performance, health and safety, data handling, confidentiality, safeguarding, dealing with disclosure and allegations, ethics, and conflict of interest.