This course aims to enable learners to contribute to, and implement, good safeguarding practice within church and community contexts.
On completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explore safeguarding within Christian communities with particular attention to the voice of victims and survivors.
- Recognise issues of power and vulnerability arising from the age or circumstances of those affected, and how these issues inform appropriate action.
- Apply some principles for safer ministry to a variety of case study scenarios.
- Identify wider support, accountability and governance arrangements relevant for safeguarding in your context.
It should be completed by people in these roles
- Clergy
- PTO Clergy
- Licensed Reader
- Parish Safeguarding Officer
- Authorised Lay Minister (ALM)
- Children’s/Youth Worker – Leaders and Helpers
- Church Warden
- PCC Member
- Pastoral/Prayer Team
- Tower Captain
- Home Group Leader
This training is completed via the Church of England Training Portal
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