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Guidelines
- The National Safeguarding Team (NST) Parish Handbook (and find the addendum here)
- Church of England Safeguarding e-manual
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Suggested Church Hall Premises Hire Terms and Conditions
- Diocese of Canterbury – Supplementary Safeguarding Booklet
- Church of England’s Social Media Guidelines
- Canterbury Diocese and Cathedral Safeguarding Advisory Panel (CSAP)
- Promoting a Safe Church 2006 – National guidelines
- Guidance for Local Children and Young People’s Ministry Teams
- Guidance for the Ministry of Deliverance
- Messy Church
- Messy Church and Unaccompanied Children
- Off-site, overnight and ‘one-off’ trips safeguarding guidance
- Responding well to Domestic Abuse
- Responding to Serious Safeguarding Situations 2017
- Safer Recruitment
- Safeguarding e-manual | The Church of England
- Training & Development Practice Guidance
- Clergy Risk Assessment Regulations
- Working in the community with vulnerable adults
- Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse
- Bell Ringers Contact information - Reporting a Safeguarding Concern
- Bell Ringers safeguarding guidelines
Policy statements
- Parish Safeguarding Policy Statement (Annexe A) (Word format) (PDF format)
- Protecting All God’s Children 2010 – National policy statement
- Diocesan and Cathedral Domestic Abuse Policy
- Diocesan and Cathedral Survivor Care Strategy
Forms
- Incident report form
- Attendance record template – (Excel format)
- Consent form for off-site activities
- Registration form for children attending groups or activities – (Word format)
- Parental Consent Form – Group Membership
- Photo consent form
- Church of England Templates and Resources
- We are a safeguarding church - poster (PowerPoint format)
- Excel sheet for PDOs (Excel format)
Checklists
- Safeguarding in the Parish – Key tasks for PCCs (Word format)
Key documents for Disclosure Officers
Information
Safeguarding
- Advocacy services
- Policing & Crime Act 2017
- Safeguarding leaflet (Aide Memoire) May 2022
- A safe environment for children – (Word format)
- ChildLine posters and resources
- Risk Assessment Group membership and terms of reference
- Safeguarding Management Group membership and terms of reference
- The lessons we need to learn
- Towards a Safer Church: Liturgical Resources
- Are you a safeguarding church? – PCC Activity Pack
- What Safeguarding Training do you need to do?
- Diocese of Canterbury Independent Safeguarding Audit 2017
- Independent Safeguarding Audit Action Plan 2017
Disclosure and Barring Service
- Route 2 DBS Application Consent Form For External Validation
- DBS Code of Practice
- DBS ID checking guidelines
- ID Checking Guidelines for DBS Checks-Route 1, 2 and 3
- DBS list of offences that will never be filtered from a criminal record check
- Recruitment of ex-offenders (Diocesan Policy Statement)
- Secure storage of Disclosure information & GDPR (Sept 2020) (Diocesan Policy Statement)
- List of countries in European Economic Area
- Update Service Request Form (Form 3U)